Full moon and the wind up our Chuff
20 January 2011
Catherine
Flew the spinny all night and Pegasus was flying at about 8-9 knots. This meant a less leisurely night watch for all involved as we actually had to watch for wind shift and change course accordingly. I suppose we could have actually helmed, but the duogen is working a treat, keeping our batteries topped up at 100% and so Uncle Auto remained at the helm all night, with the occasional tweak of two degrees to the left, then two degrees to the right. No-one can pretend it was a comfortable night though and only the kids slept through the night. Which explains why we are doing a more sedate 4-5 knots as I write this at 1am on this our 5th night. Really enjoying the sail. Makes the relentless slog of 30 knots on our nose through the Med worth every minute as we potter across what will be the largest stretch of water we sail (I've just been planning the Pacific part of our trip!)Kids reluctantly doing school work and diaries now I know they don't get sea sick, with the promise we will have a whole week off school work when we arrive. Chloe beavering away at her patchwork quilt ("you have a sewing machine on board? Seriously?") Alan topping up his tan on the trampoline. Mark being on mother watch again - must have been a slip in writing the watch system at 2am before we set sail, honest! Full moon reflecting so brightly on the water - kids sleeping outside again in the cockpit in what has become a Pegasus full moon tradition.