The weather is stormy, we wait in Enkhuizen
Today finally the sun appears to the sky ( for ten minutes ). The wind should ease late afternoon today. Last night it was windy and rain poured down heavily. We set the Yankee cut genoa for the first time, because of the hard winds that have been prevailly all the way from Denmark. The thunderstorms followed us to Sciermonnikoog in holland and lasted over one week. The winds have been up to 40 knots, 25 - 30 knots almost every day. The motor service was timed right because of the thunder stoms we actually did not loose so much time. One of the diesel ejectors leaked and I got a bad eye from the monteur and the steerman when saying. Let´s make all the cylinders at once. But the guys at Volvo shared the same opinion with the old skipper and made the whole top with brand new copper cylinders around the ejectors. Now running perfectly.
Some bad stories of the crew is not awailable, the behavior has been greathe unge ecept the captains navigation table. The electric installations are not yet finished. We still bought new maps of Dutch delta because of the tense built wind mill parks.
Flevo Race was very vindy on sunday and the boats came back only 1,5 hours later to the harbour. Fast food managed first on sunday which was named to the older gentleman of this ship by the younger skippr trainee. Ha Haa!
Today heading to Isselmeer and the North sea again. We are sailing to Belgium and England the next week.
