day 15

"The Minnow" ARC 2005 Atlantic Crossing

Mike's Exciting Day 15 Update!

They woke me up again about 7:15 this morning. It was pitch black again.
This time they told me they wanted help raising Whomper, again. There was a
big difference. This time we were raising Whomper out of the water and onto
the deck. It was somewhat worse for the wear with some rips and tears. So we
officially lost our third sail today.

But we still have three sails left. And two of the tore-up ones are
repairable on the boat, if needed. We put up our third spinnaker and kept
going. Now we are treating our sails very, very tenderly. Just a few more
days to St. Lucia and we still haven't motored!

Fishing Report:

One dolphin, which is now in the fridge.

Today's Nautical Term:

Chafe. This is a repeat lesson. Today we had a new kind of nautical
rope-chafing. A rope chafed Bobs' finger. He sure was gripy for awhile.

Arts and Entertainment:

Bob wouldn't play sousaphone with a chafed finger, but he did serenade us
with some rip-roaring baritone solos.