Heavy weather sailing

Back to row with the other slaves on Monday past and the year at work started off with a visit to the labour department at 08h00 on the 4th of January. The government always fun and informative to deal with, but I decided that this year was going to be good no matter what so dealing with the officials went as expected, slow and in circles with no real joy. You know I think the problem is that people actually don’t speak the same language even when they do. For example Lola and I went to see a client at Honda on day. Whilst sitting in the reception area Lola commented upon the size of the reception, I assumed that she was speaking about the receptionist that was also rather large and we had a ten minute conversation about the subject with neither of us realising that we were not speaking about the same thing at all. It was only later on in the day when we touched on the subject again that we realised what had happened. So if this can happen to two people that actually know each other well imagine trying to communicate with a strange government employee about a subject that neither of you actually understand.

Back to Richards bay, beautiful place, we are going to attempt to move there onto the yacht that we have not bought yet, some time maybe this year or next year latest if all goes according to plan. So please hold thumbs.

This month I have read “heavy weather cruising” and it seems the more you read about storms and the ocean the more scary it becomes, perhaps it is easier not to read anything and just go. These authors are also very controversial, every book about heavy weather sailing that I have read so far tell you the basic methods used in these conditions, but each author has a different opinion as to when to use which method and they all seem to contradict each other. I suppose that each person has to decide at the time for himself which method to use in which conditions, hopefully they all have some merit.