L'Eau Commotion Westabout

Day 94 7pm Monday 9th September 2019 ( UTC-1 )
I mentioned yesterday that for the first time I tried poling out the jib to the lee in a quartering wind and that has continued since and I am enamoured of the result. It is possible it is a tad slower but if so that is much outweighed by the extraordinary stability both in direction and roll. The wind on the quarter, always a little touchy for a wind vane, is handled with aplomb by the Windpilot and on the rare occasion when the yacht has rounded up from a small breaking wave near the stern the jib just gives a little ruffle and immediately gets back in the groove. Compare this with the jib poled to windward when the sail can be backwinded which often requires intervention at the helm. It is a shame I can't give figures from my now defunct wind instruments. I ran the desalinator for twelve hours today which together with yesterday has topped up both main tanks and accounted for domestic useage over the last five weeks. I know it seems silly to be carting this dead weight around but the thought of running short overwhelms logic.