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| Top down from the inner foresail halyard area. At sea I let go a halyard, and yip - it was rock and roll up there.
No photoshop, no one on the helm and miles of beautiful blue water.
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Here are a few pictures of the good parts:
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| Leaving Panama, knowing +25knot of wind was imminent |
Little did I know how much we were going to rely on this engine, which gave us no troubles. These narrow anchorages and passes are not palaces to sail. I admire the seamanship of the older generations, who approached landfalls without motive power. A new 50hp yanmar, with lots of marks on pulleys etc so I do not have to try remember in difficult times.
One evening, in the French Polynesians, we needed a slow overnight sail to enter the next reef system in daylight. Good company and beautiful conditions.
This view is our usual 'fwd of the beam' set-up, the 3 sails balancing them selves and the windvane doing the correction. Over 50% of our passages were fwd of the beam.The big Genoa out forward of the bow does a fair job hauling her downwind.
This is our V-berth inter-leading door. There is a warmth in wood, and whether this translates to ones psych or not is a different discussion, I just know how much pleasure we have had, been comfortably stationed inside.
