First day back out to sea. It always feels good to be back to our regular schedule. Away from the hustle and bustle of port, back out in the open ocean air. Ship’s work resumed as usual. Rhyanne, of South Carolina, was given the task of touching up our ship’s emblem; a castle turret with an anchor imprinted on it and a dragon wrapped around the turret. We have two, one on either side of the funnel on the
In the afternoon, the Captain and our Chief Mate held seamanship workshop on coiling. How to properly coil a line whether it’s on deck or coiled in your hand, followed by how to coil hawsers and coils made for running, which lead into practicing coiling the head sail halyards for running and then testing the newly learned technique by taking in all four head sails at once, a rather fun exercise to end the workday off with.
From: Rodrigues
Towards: Reunion
Date: Friday, January 11th, 2019
Noon Position: 19°53.8’S x 062°00.0’E
Course + Speed: W by N 3/4 N + 3.8 kts
Wind direction + Force: E + 4
Swell Height + Direction: 1-2m + ENE
Weather: Sunny
Day’s Run: 78.6 nm
Passage Log: 76 nm
Distance to Port: 382.6 nm
Voyage: 17270.6 nm
Sails Set: All sails set,