One of our Monitor windvane steering lines failed in the middle of a near gale yesterday. Hove to and had to climb outside onto it to put on new one on. Not such a fun thing but we got it done and even replaced the other line. It's our own fault as when we checked them prior to departure we judged them serviceable.
Hove to again about 4 or 5 am Saturday morning. Over canvassed (really out of balance) with only a double reefed main. Self steering unhappy and hand steering exhausting. It was pitch black, raining and blowing up to gale, so we didn't want to do anything until daylight as reefing means going forward to the mast.
Storminess still around but we're sailing along nicely this morning with third reef and half the genoa on a comfy downwind run well east of our rhumb line and "Bud" is working his magic steering.
And our bellies are full of breakfast...now for a nap.
At 7/29/2016 and 23:07 UTC (GMT) our position was: 06°29.82'N / 137°00.88'E.
We were traveling 130 degrees true at 5.0 knots.
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