Amanda Campion

Beautiful sail with 11-19 knots of wind, largely on the beam

Light winds so motor sailed with a fair bit of rain. A chance to practice a few marks and furling and unfurling ahead of our passage tomorrow.

Great conditions, tacked upwind before a beautiful downwind sail with the Asymmetric spinnaker. I was on trimming the Genoa and Spinnaker. A worrying moment when we lost 80% of steerage but dismantling the auto helm temporarily resolved the issue.

First day of training, spent the morning on the dock running scenarios due to fog. Then a great afternoon sailing in 20knots of wind, got the asymmetric spinnaker up and hit 8knots of boat speed.

A stunning day, very consistent 10knots of winds from the West, beautiful blue skies, only saw one other yacht and a fishing boat all day

Winds ranging from 3 knots to 30 knots and everything in between. Sluggish motor meant we were concerned something had got caught on the propellor so avoided using the motor. Spend a couple of hours bobbing around waiting for the wind to fill in, Dolphins accompanied us the whole time. Then the winds filled in and we had 20 knots gusting 30, reefed the main and switched to the staysail, amazing sail upwind for 15Nm, then a tricky entrance to Budvar Marina avoiding using the motor to the very last moment, divers down now 🤞

Very light winds so motored for an hour, then winds picked up to 10-15 knots, lovely broad reach, one gybe and then a beam reach into Uvala Valdonos, but swell would have made for a very rolly night so motored 3 Nm down to Ulcinj as winds had died.