Leg 2 Day 10 On Watch with Holly (EP 42)

Leg 2 Day 10 On Watch with Holly (EP 42)

H Come Come [Applause] Oh [Applause] These bell peppers are a little sad so it’s better to put them inside something I think yeah is it Burger night Burger night Che it out look at those patties mhm you the chef Ando we’re currently sailing with the code 65 here’s the Little Dot which is where the wind is coming

From you can see there 65 um pretty good on our poers so far and the wind is about 15 knots averaging apparent wind um speet overground about 10 it’s a little bumpy so that’s what that banging is this is what it’s like sitting at night watch in the very early Dawn I’m just chilling eating an orange which looks red this light probably I can turn that off I was thinking how Soul cleansing this last couple of days have

Been and remembering I don’t know 15 years ago 14 years ago when Stefan introduced sailing to me what I liked about it was it cleared my mind like you had to be entirely focused on the present moment and you know for me that was something that has always been a

Challenge um with kids and work and everything it’s easy to kind of just rush through um it’s easy to rush through life and I spent a lot of time in yoga classes and meditation Studios trying to sort of be in the moment and enjoy that that moment as it’s

Happening but nothing has been even close to what I’ve been sort of experiencing in the last couple of days and I’m not sure if it’s the ocean that just puts things in perspective or the time just to have the time to focus on what’s going on in that moment

Um but everything or the fact that maybe just my world’s so small um it’s been incredible incredible and soul cleansing and again I don’t know if it’s the sailing or the water or the passage or what but I think we all maybe need a little bit more of that in our lives at

Least I do this is a really dumb example but um I typically hate to cook my rule is it can’t take longer to cook it than to eat it however I have found cooking to be very joyful and fulfilling on this trip and I think maybe again just having the time to

Think about it and to not be in a hurry and to know that it brings Joy to the rest of the crew it’s incredibly fulfilling it sounds so stupid but um I just never really enjoyed it before cuz I just felt like it was something I had to do and

Rush to get done you know before rushing off to this or you know um running kids off to practice or whatever but yeah I can see why people maybe take up gardening but sailing’s fun too so you can tell we have a racer on board cuz she’s figured out how to set

Up the Nemesis into the Waypoint mode so it looks like um ETA to our next way point she set that up it’s pretty cool we don’t know how to use a lot of these views yet in this little guy but it’s super fun we were doing the life jacket

Briefing yesterday it was more like life jacket policy for the boat and one of the things I wanted to share and I know a lot of people are going to have strong opinions about this but I’m just going to share the information is that um these life jackets are really useless unless you

Use the crotch strap and I don’t know if it’s a cultural thing or what uh in Europe you see everybody wearing the crotch strap um but in the US I think it’s a mixed bag I don’t know what what that’s about but um basically you need to have your life

Best tight so I tightened mine um which is good cuz it was kind of loose before um here so now it’s tight number one um it has a double harness so I can clip in and clip out of where I need to be and then it has the the

Strap um so what happens is if you fall overboard this inflates and it’ll rise up and if it rises up too far it can actually inflate above your head which means it would be holding your head underwater so the crotch strap helps keep it in place so when it inflates it inflates

Around your neck so that’s the purpose of a crotch strap so I wear mine religiously look at this beautiful beautiful clouds Sunrise oh the other thing we’ve installed in our black jackets is a quick release um here what that does is in the event we fall overboard and are harnessed to

The boat but are somehow struggling um to breathe and you would want to do this as a last Stitch effort obviously before you pass out is to pull the quick release and it releases the harness which means you’re not any longer Tethered to the boat which has its own set of

Issues um but you’d have to prioritize breathing over big attached kind of a morbid thought but I just wanted to add That [Applause] [Applause] it’s a little ominous but we’re moving in an opposite direction than it’s moving a little bit of the good news is yesterday we had a storm tactics conversation we talked about a lot of things but um we talked mostly about squalls cuz that’s what we’re going to

See a lot of and what Nikki said is a lot of people try to game the squalls to try to take advantage of some of the uh winds within them and she said she just avoids them like you would avoid a ship um just steer clear out of out of the

Way and it reduces risks on many levels and um she said nine times out of 10 if people are trying to game fall and get the advantage of the wind speed it never quite works out cuz you get stuck in the middle where there’s no wind for a while

And it cancels out any speed gains you would make so I thought that was pretty interesting so avoid squalls like their ships tip of the day this is our autopilot we’ve named him George I don’t exactly know why it might be because George just sounds like a

Dependable name I’ve never really met a George that wasn’t reliable so it seemed seemed like a good name for an autopilot what’s going on with these weather clouds uh well it’s more overcast um I think it’s probably because is where there is a low pressure system that is not low super

Low but because the typically the high pressure has been North Northeast and West than usual so it creates that space between the high pressures to you have kind of this high pressure that is like Way West and North you have another one and that creates the wind spins this way the wind spins

This way so you have this little um space is being created for some low pressures and then you have this weird system so so that’s what we see here um we’re here uh this little low pressure is here uh that explains the the winds we’re getting because the high pressure

Is further to the to the east and north and so instead of getting those straight winds this way we’re kind of getting the winds coming 120 cuz it’s moved it’s moved that way and North so we’re trying to sell Southwest this thing is going to leave here for another 24 48

Hours and then he kind of moves up a little bit we move down and I think it just yeah it weakens so the end of the trip after Sunday is it’s going to be A2 Jing all the way to martinque if we have stronger winds we’ll try the uh symmetry the S4 it’s

Been uh the S4 has been just a passenger the onp dead weight on so far on this trip we need uh we have we haven’t sail it yet Nikki sell it on a newon m55 um she says it’s great but you need that 15 plus wind uh otherwise the boat

Accelerates and U the Spiner kind of collapses a little bit so so we need if we find those conditions where we have uh at least uh yeah 15 plus then we’ll we’ll try it maybe a little bit more than 15 18 20 that be the plan so and if

Even if we don’t have the right conditions we’ll try just to try take some pictures see what it looks like yeah crispy still we’re getting closer uh we we yesterday we passed uh what we had kind of a little bit of a halfway party maybe we continue today but we’re getting closer

To to the Thousand yeah maybe after today maybe tomorrow we’ll be uh under a thousand woohoo and if we look at speed overground over the past like right now the past hour has been 10 knots if we look for the past uh I don’t know 5 hours

10.2 the past 10 hours 10 knots so we’ve been uh doing um pretty good averages yeah 10 knots in 10 hours average yeah going in one uh 120 through wind app parent uh yeah 120 we’ve had uh 15 this not like uh 14 15 we apparent win about 12 uh froming

On port side uh 78° 80° boat speed around 10 and uh yeah 24ish so put 65 so that’s pretty good that means over the 10 last 10 hours 100 Nal miles so if we continue this way we we’ll definitely uh maybe over the past 24 hours we’ve been at over 200

Probably uh we’ll see we do some calculations later but suspect yeah all day today is going to be more of that so we’ll definitely do a 200 M plus day so your watch doesn’t start for another hour so I miss you buddy a you miss me just

So sweet check on you making sure always is good yeah thank you for checking on me yeah all is good it was a good Sunrise I I oh

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