Something hanging off the mast too. They undid some lines there. We got back to
the boat and somebody have been of the boat and they broke some stuff.
After a week in Albania we set sail and head north west to Montenegro. We begin
to sail with a gentle breeze with the wind around ten knots. As we moved along
the wind began to weaken. We had two options.
turn on the engine and motor the rest of the way or bring out the spinnaker sail.
This is our spinnaker and I'm pretty sure from
what I understand it's like there's this long bag which looks like what we've got here and then you
raise that and then you pull the bag down and the spinnaker comes out. Like the ring
slides up. Oh and this goes up. Okay so that means that this is your tack and this is
your clew. What is this pulley for though? I've never sailed with this spinnaker before
I have no idea to put a spinnaker up.
We put away the headsail. This is my guess of how to do this. We're gonna raise it
up with the halyard then I'll attach the tack to the forward cleat and
then we'll attach this sheet to the clew and run that back to a winch, maybe toss
it through a block. See if that works.
All right, Tara go ahead and pull up the slack. All right, hold that.
That doesn't look right. We might have a twisted spinnaker.
All right, off she goes. Let it go, right?
Oh, there she goes!
Not bad for winging it! I don't really know how you trim a spinnaker so I'm
experimenting right now. Front, the front of it looks like it luffing so now if
we can trim it in, it should stop luffing. As soon as that stops luffing that
should mean that we're trim. Keep trimming. I also have no idea how long this line is
supposed to be attached to the tack. All right, let's go with that for right now.
One of the reasons I love sailing is that even though this is not
perfect rigging and the sail could be made more efficient by a salty sailor
our shoddy first attempt worked. We gained a few knots and made it to our anchor.
We played a game of Monopoly and watched the storm roll pass us to the north.
We headed into town to find a coffee shop that would serve as office for the
day. And on our return to Arianrhod...
Probably was that group of guys. Those guys, yeah.
And look at the mast, like that thing hanging off the mast too.
They undid some lines there.
We got back to the boat and somebody had been on the boat and they broke
some stuff. They broke our throwable here. It's broken in two spots. That's really
unfortunate because this thing is actually really important. Somebody goes
overboard you throw it and it shoots out of the water like five six feet there's
a flag on the top so that the person in the water the man overboard can pull
that, release the flag, and then you can locate them so that's broken that's
unfortunate. That snapped and hit Tara in the face. They went through the cockpit
took out the drill, they didn't take the drill. Left a pair of pants. They left
some rolling papers. They took, we had two hanging bags that
we kept our clothes pins in, all this kind of stuff, didn't steal anything
except for those two bags. It's just really infuriating to know that there's
somebody on the boat without permission, but we're gonna go ahead and just leave.
We could contact the police, but it seems like more trouble than it's worth.
Pretty sure I know who it was. As we were leaving there was these like four goons on
this like inflatable with a, I don't know like a paddle like a paddleboard
boat like a paddle boat with a slide on it. These four guys probably in their
mid 20's they just looked like they're up to no good. As we were leaving I
actually commented to Tara I was like, "that's kind of weird that there's just
four like mid 20's guys on like a paddle boat out here in the bay." Once we left
and went into town I'm sure that they probably came on board and hooliganized
it. It's just so frustrating. There's hooligans everywhere.
We made way north. We came across a raging fire scorching this hillside and
from the relative safety of the water we admired the power.
And faster than you could say, "hold your nose!" we were in Bar, Montenegro. Wind is
blowing us onto the dock so in order for us to get off the dock we're going to
undo the bow line because it's gonna be pretty much slack we'll take the stern
line run it up towards the midship so it's kind of like a spring line
we'll use this big fender as a roaming fender. We'll bear down go backwards on
the stern spring line and then use this as a pivot point to pivot out our bow
and then we'll turn around. I learned all that from Sailing La Vagabonde put out a
video about it. We were in this marina for two nights because we had to do some
paperwork for, because we just crossed the border from Albania into
Montenegro basically. Okay. Let's get this bow line off, it's slack. Ready, Jackson? Ready, we're off.
Still fending. Good? Yeah.
All right.
All right, we made it!
We topped off on fuel and promptly motored out of the bay with sights on the historic
Kotor, Montenegro.
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