Wind is supposed to be around 15-20 knots. Right now there's almost nothing. Off in
the distance you can see a lighthouse, very faint right there. It's about ten
degrees Celsius. Sea is a little bit rolly out here on
the Adriatic and we're about 45 minutes into the sail. We are motoring right now.
Tara how you feeling? We've got about 18 nautical miles to go. Right now closing
in on this lighthouse. It'll pass on our starboard so we'll go
to the left of that island and now we're going to sail the Adriatic Sea.
Anytime you're on land for more than a week the first day, two days, three
days, week maybe you'll feel a little seasick. Nothing unmanageable but
a little bit of salivating. If you've never been seasick before the
progression is you start to salivate and your stomach starts to turn and then you
start to feel green or queasy but by the time you're like
really salivating you can feel the blood drop out of your face and it's not a
good feeling. You feel like you're gonna die, it's
terrible. Throwing up helps but even that doesn't cure it. You just have to work
through it. So it looks like there's rain about dead ahead of us.
The wind is blowing counter the swell so we've got waves going reverse of this
swell. We'll prepare the main so let the sheet run free
I need to open the sail bag, attach the halyard, raise the main.
Head up to about 190.
Good old mended rope. That was a bit of a rough sail, got a little gnarly there for
a while. We ended up in a little bit of a cross sea so we were getting hit with
swell from every direction got a bit queasy, definitely cold. The rain
came, wind picked up, ended up just turning on the motor to get here.
South of the island we're protected. It's really calm, really nice. We're in eight
meters of water. We've got a ton of chain out. Down time to kick up a fire. We woke
up today on anchor. We are heading out today to sail another 24 miles. That's
what we did yesterday to Silba, the island of Silba and that should provide
us some protection from the wind because the wind will pick up again tonight.
We'll see if we can sail. The prediction looks like we should be able to sail on
a beam reach but looking at the wind right now we might be headed right into
it but that might just be the way that's coming around the island.
Excited to be moving again to get further south. I think it'll be a lot
warmer as we go. Feels so different working in gloves
It's harder to move with the gear on but
it's just different another element that's fun to experience.
We're gonna go between these two islands that are down here and then once
we get through then we're gonna bear left so head up like 20 degrees to about
120 stay on that for a two - two and a half hours 14 miles and then we're
gonna turn left some more and head up to about due east so that's the rough
course right now. That'll bring us to the south west side of Silba island in
Croatia. Generally we try to stay away from the carbohydrates, but we're gonna make
some pancakes this morning. We don't have buttermilk but the way you make
buttermilk: you just take milk, take a lemon, put the
lemon in the milk, leave it for 5-10 minutes it'll turn
into buttermilk and they make delicious pancakes. Go ahead, adjust course
10 degrees north.
Here's your pancake. Thank you.
Oh my god Tara come look at this.
We have just weighed anchor and began to make way south to get around Silba
Island where we were anchored last night. Very calm protected anchor. It's really
nice this morning there's not a whole lot of wind but the wind is coming out
of the south-southeast and since we're headed south we're going to get around
Silba and then 30 degrees east we'll be going like right into the wind
so it's going to be a 3-hour motor and then we'll continue to leapfrog our way
south to get eventually out of Croatia and down into Greece.
Nice sandy bottom we will use the motor to pick up the anchor and then we want to
motor out of this Bay and maybe about a mile directly into the wind to get out
of the bay. We'll go straight north then we'll set the sails and will pretty much
head due east and we'll be on a beam reach and pretty much due south and
we should be running with the wind for about 18 miles. Right now the winds
blowing about 20 knots. It should lighten up to around 15 knots and by noon it
might be completely calm. Tonight tomorrow and the next day it looks like
it's gonna be coming out of the south so we should be nice and protected
in Luka which is about 20 miles away so it should take us around four hours.
We covered about 83 nautical miles in our first four days of being back on the
water. Since being on the water the weather has been both heavy and calm. Now
as we cruise into the serene bay of Luka we are prepared to sit on anchor
for three days as a storm brews in the south. If you enjoyed this episode of SV Arianrhod
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