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sunny but high wind and fairly big seas from east so decided on a lazy day catching up on jobs like checking each beam lashing , improving lashings on rudders with some old bike inner tubes so rudder stays about central but with a bit of give at anchor
dropped long handled deck brush over the side today and immediately rushed to get the boat hook but to my surprise it was still bobbing there when I got back - usually at sea anything over board is a one way trip but not so on the sea anchor
Yesterday we were hit by a particularly nasty steep cross sea when sailing and it was one of those situations where one thing leads to another.
The huge jolt and the angle of the boat on the wave face and the fact that the safety catch was not on allowed the hatch to slide open and half a buckets worth of sea water poised in the air above the open hatch to seize its chance and dive down the hatch opening.
The bilge which has been dry since the Tonga trip in 17 years ago needed drying out today ( fine job Ted ) as some bottles of wine being stored in the bilge for later would have lost there labels and become pot luck!
We never drink anything alcoholic at sea however it is too dangerous - you needs be on top form all the time!
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