By Cara Lauzon
Today we had the amazing opportunity to bend on the main sail while at sea. It is so sunny and beautiful, t-shirt weather even aloft! It was a really interesting as well cool experience and some of our new hands who had the chance to work aloft for the first time, for me (the Purser) it was the first time bending on a sail while underway which is not something that happens often. Now we are laying into the evening watches, and getting ready for the night.
Date: 16 March 2018
Course + Speed: S1/2W, 5kts
Wind direction + Force: WxS, F5
Swell Height + Direction: WNW, 3m
Weather: Bright and sunny
Day’s Run: 118.4 nm
Passage Log: 234.7 nm
Distance to Port: 787nm
Voyage: 1280 nm
Sail Set: t’gallants, topsails, foresail, fore and main topmast staysails, inner and outer jib and spanker
Bending on the main sail, photo by trainee Sarah Ensslin