L'Eau Commotion Westabout

7:00pm Wednesday 18th October 2017 ( UTC ) Sometimes you can be just too tidy. Rearranging sheets and blocks to be just so, organising the fishing tackle , odds and ends, I came across the little rubber cover for the autopilot control. With the now tropical sun beating down I installed this over the control which is adjacent to the helm and continued on. With the occasional glance at the heading and wind direction I sort of sensed something was not quite right, then the poled out jib backwinded. Oh No ! Have I lost my wind steering so soon? A few more minutes of angst then the realisation set in that when I was putting on the soft cover I inadvertently was pressing the underlying buttons. And the rest of the day? Sheer unadulterated joy. I literally pole danced round the saloon with the 60mm roof support as partner. Up on the foredeck swinging round the forestay and bellowing snippets of songs from my youth.True! You may be able to get an idea of the conditions from the photo with the asymmetrical billowing full and balanced by the poled out jib making over six knots in an almost flat sea. --------------090904080507060003020708--