Genny, rip

Six knots of wind is hardly enough to fill the sails. They're protesting, asking to be let in. As long as the boat speed is higher than the motor alone will provide, I'll leave them out. It's becoming a contest of wills, like whining dogs. The problem is the wind is coming from directly astern. The main sail blankets the genoa, so the genoa feels left out. Hence the tantrum.

The wind/water generator is finally out of service for good. In the first half of this trip it provided electrical generation from the wind turbine. When that failed we changed out the wind turbine for a water turbine and pulled it along behind us for most of this half of the trip. Now the shaft to the water turbine has broken.

Offshore sailing is hard on gear. Wear and tear and exposure to the elements is relentless, so the parade of equipment needing maintenance is relentless. A guy really gets to know his boat on a trip like this.

Bruce Frank, we're thinking about you.