Woke up at 01:20 to the boat crashing and bashing its way through the waves, it was mum’s shift and I hadn’t been woken to put the Code Zero away so it was still up. The plan was to bring it down as soon as the winds hit 16 knots. <\/p>\n

01:30 I was getting myself ready to just check on the situation when Mum cried out for help. The sail had gone, totally ripped from top to bottom and was flapping about past our starboard hull. Steve and mum got into their harnesses and went forward to bring what was left in, while I was at the helm controlling the lines. The seas were quite choppy which didn’t help the situation, but we brought it in with everyone still safe aboard. It was 10 minutes until my shift, I let mum off early to go to bed. Steve and I put up the much stronger normal sails, setup them up and checked everything was fine before Steve also went back to sleep.<\/p>\n

RIP: Code Zero, Late 2008 – 2009 Broken …. fixed Early 2010 – Destroyed April 2010 <\/p>\n

With the normal sails up we have been doing about 6-9 knots, sometimes more. The ocean is no longer a nice long deep swell, with the winds comes the chop and we have been crashing and bashing our way through since just before the Incident, but covering a lot of miles. This is more like what I thought sailing would be like when I signed up for this.<\/p>\n

Daily we are finding more and more flying fish and squid about the boat sometimes in very weird places. Steve’s been keeping count, but I’ve forgotten because…….<\/p>\n

………We finally broke our bad run on the fishing and bagged ourselves a small Mahi Mahi late afternoon. It has raised Steve and my hopes for the rest of our trip, will this be the start of a freezer packed full of fish.<\/p>\n

A pod of 15-20 dolphins came to play with us at sunset, this was nice as we haven’t seen that many dolphins this near to the boat for a while now.<\/p>\n

Oh we also had a great lunch of fried egg sandwiches, something I’ve been craving for and to top it off pizza for dinner…… yum yum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woke up at 01:20 to the boat crashing and bashing its way through the waves, it was mum’s shift and I hadn’t been woken to put the Code Zero away so it was still up. The plan was to bring it down as soon as the winds hit 16 knots. <\/p>\n

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