Well motherwatch went well, had a fun day in the galley, went over the date line around 3pm (3am uk time) and went back day to the 11th at3 pm! Made brownies and Yorkshire puddings to go with dinner and did some Galley-oke with Kaz and gave everyone a laugh.
Decent sleep and woke up to the code 3 having been flown (between round ups and wraps) overnight. Within 5 mins of taking the helm managed to wrap it; sooooo badly that it couldn’t be unwrapped and continued to get worse and worse. Took hours to unwrap. Ended up taking the tack and clew round and round the inner forestay , then Dan went up and unrapped as much of the head as possible, looked incredibly tough. In the end it was stuck between the yankee and stay halyards and we ground the halyards down which managed to allow the head to come free and the think floated fee into the sea. Bring on the WTC rowing team and be kite was hauled back on board. Several holes to fix but no real harm done, didn’t even loose too much ground to Punta either!
Feeling pretty down about the whole thing but can’t change it I guess. Better try get back on the horse.
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