At 1200GMT we left the inside passage and headed out to sea in a howling morning blow. The situation has calmed down now, Jorgen and Juha are asleep, Esa is on deck naked doing yoga (or some approximation of it appropriate for a swinging foundation), the sun is out, no ships in sight, the wind is 15 to 20 kts out of the east, Mona, out wind vane has the situation under control, we have one reef in the main and we just took out the reef we had in the genoa, our heading is 40°T and we’re doing between 6 and 8 kts depending on what Mona hits as waves. Time to go back on deck to fiddle with the sails so we can get another 0,5 kts out of her. XXXX p
