Daily report #77

Party

On the water. The waves dance. The white heads roll off the mountains of water. Sometimes they are blown off completely. Laughing, screeching and roaring. Dipping, swinging and stomping. We are crossing off. Something about one tack and a while later something about the other. We were traveling with a milkmaid, but that was no longer possible. Once again everything is an antique washing machine. Yesterday it turned out that the wedge tree that is on a rail on the mast had been thrown out of its path. Well. You're not going to fix that during a stormy period on the way to St. Helena. But it's not really broken and instead of crossing into the wind, we cross off. The boom also went back and forth all the time. About 10 cm from one side to the other of the space he has in the lap. But one of the pulleys has so much play on its bearing that the sheave is crooked and the bolt slowly but surely breaks against the side of the pulley. You don't see it when everything in the harbor is nice and quiet. Boom now better fixed. A difficult job with all kinds of lines in places where you don't actually want them. But he's fixed. It's a good time to replace that pulley. On the chore list. Item 1 of two.
Other than that things are going well. But you're actually waiting all the time for something to go wrong again. Not because it is all bad equipment (on the contrary) but because it is going on enormously and for a long time. And then we really sail with a lappie. Not with much sail. We do it as it should be done, while preserving man and ship. But it's just hard to see and all check which part is next. I have also noticed that as soon as something is wrong I immediately think of two or three alternatives to fix it. Some kind of way to deal with it without panicking, I guess, which I've never gotten by the way. But I now know the feeling that something could happen to you while you are far from civilization and you therefore have to take good care of each other and the ship. And the two of us are good at that too.
Tomorrow afternoon we will have calmer weather and we can get things back in better condition. If everything continues to function, it won't be much work.
And we can't think of what the next part could be.
That is a good sign.

Greetings Ton and Mark.