Bay of Biscay - Rubicon 3






Sailing log

Left Monday at 14:00 BST o. BlueJay Clipper 57 (60ft)


Crew:

Ollie

Dimitry

Me (top bunk starboard)

Helena

Simon ( below me)

Rene

Dave aka Matt (California)

Ian

Val

Linda (Austin, Tx) 

Alex (videographer)


Watch shifts


Alpha 

Me

Helena

Rene


Bravo 

Linda

Ian 

Dave


Charlie

Val

Alex

Simon 


3 hours in 6 off


We started at 18:00 hrs (?)


Nice sailing


Tuesday 


Woke to force 8 sailing 

Hard to helms

But learnt a lot 


People are sick and unwell. 

I manage but have my moments. 

Better on deck than in the galley. 


Tried the pork stew stuff. Hhmmmm


Wednesday 


An amazing roll cloud

Followed by big squalls

Another tough days sailing. 


At the end of the day had the veggie stew???


Today it was a starboard tack so sleeping was difficult (not help by a bird in the cabin - I thought someone was flaking the Yankee sail!!!)


Thursday 


On the 12:00 to 03:00 shift early morning (again great Milky Way, but alas no dolphins today due to pinger as we have crossed the continent shelf and Ollie is apprehensive of Orcas, fairly enough) 


Helmsman for the full 3 hrs into port handing over to Ollie to dock.


Docked at 03:30 hrs 


Up at 10:00 Spanish time bacon breakfast, passport control and shower, and laundry!

Clean down boat and then lunch and a few beers


Unfortunately Renee had a fall during the force 8 wind and hurt his back and has decided to leave the boat at Gijón. 


Walk around town, then return to boat. 


In the evening we all head out for dinner in town,  I have typical Spanish fair of some kind of grey thin beef - neither roast nor steak, thank goodness I had a proper Angus beef hamburger for lunch.


After dinner Matt and myself pop into a bar for a few beers. To be honest these beers must be strong and I feel more than tipsy, anyway evening down we head back to the boat for a well earned rest. 

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