from North, which we had bought in Croatia, to be delivered here. Only problem is that the sail got here first, and they are all closing shop tomorrow for the Holidays. We had to come now or wait for two weeks here.
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| Taking Vanilla's pulse |
We left at 4:30pm last night and gunned it all night. The wind and the waves were against us all the f'kn way. Huge waves and strong winds, both on the nose. Big stuff,
big waves 2 to 3 meters, on the nose. Up and down and sideways, non stop. Cynthia was feeling her guts lock up so lay down in the cockpit, & never got up. She did wake up a few times, & we spent a memorable hour in the early morning watching shooting stars. There must have been 30 or 40, some real fireballs too. It was spectacular. And she saw a couple of "flares" again. These are like magnesium lights, faster than a plane, of which there were quite a few, but slower than a shooting star. They were IN FRONT of the clouds. One tracked a short distance across the sky & the other stayed pretty much in one spot. She saw a big fireball streak down to the horizon later, & it had the hazy glow of being viewed through the clouds, so she had something to compare it with.
After 17 hrs we pulled in the marina in Palma. There was a MEGA yacht trying to raise her jib in the harbour, & we felt like midgets when we pulled in, there were so many huge boats.
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| Mega-yacht with jib problems. |
It is a top of the line marina, and cheaper than some crappy other ones we were in. I had a hard time walking straight, everything was still moving. Anyways, we'll have to stay here for a couple of days and let the storm pass, mainly high winds...gale warning in effect.
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| Highly specialized rigging tool |
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