L'Eau Commotion Westabout

10pm Friday 18th August 2017 ( UTC+9 ) The gentle breeze soon died down last night so dropped all sails until 5am and eased away under a quartering wind to a delightful morning. The crescent moon and the morning star hovered over the first blush of dawn as I set about a much needed tidy up and essential maintenance. The spinnaker pole is a bit big to handle on its own so gradually figured the correct run of sheets and halyards such that it can be set up and lowered in a slop basically using winches from the cockpit. With the poled out staysail got L'Eau Commotion to run more or less dead downwind but beyond 15 knots she tended to round up and so now with 20+ following winds we are running under double reefed main alone, which is mostly OK.