The roller coaster ride was getting rather annoying after about 16 hours of getting hammered. I survived on Gator aid and crackers and Michel could not keep anything down.
The rough seas stirred up sediment in the fuel tank enough to clog the intake line of the fuel filter system. We managed to jury rig a dingy pump to push the fuel back into the tanks in order to prevent stalling. ( we stalled once and that was not nice) We pumped pretty much on the hour as we did our log updates
I think we all had a 5 minute thresh hold "down below" before the queasy sea sick gremlins kicked in.
The winds were about 20-35 knots on the nose with seas at 18-20 feet swell. Add in breaking waves and it was pretty a heck of a wet ride. We soon learn why there are cockpit drains.
The seas and winds bust apart our window zippers which had to be"speedy stitched" back closed. The bow was burried often which lifted our liferaft from the deck.
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We can relate to your pain on the California/Oregon coast. Mendocino has kicked our butts three times now: twice downwind and once upwind. I admire your fortitude to get Jovietal back to B.C. from El Salvador. We're currently in Portugal having sailed downwind in a gale across the Bay of Biscay. There's a boat from Victoria in the harbor with us, and we're thinking of you.
Shirlee from Solstice
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