So we leave Camden in lifhght winds and pridictions on Wind Guru and local weather channel and vhf reports saying the same thing. winds build to 15 K at sunset and dropping to 8-10 knots overnight with clear skies. We had to get out from te lobster pots by dark and baryly made it wrapping one pot briefly. We practiced boat handling to give a feel for direction and control of the boat. We had the screeecher up and the main full. Doing 6 Knots building to 12 knots with a very heavy boat in 15Kots of wind. Then the wind built to 20k and we threw in a reef and furled the screecher. Could not get all the screecher furled. leaving about 3 feet exposed. I left the screecher up - a mistake. By the time one reef was in and we were on the ful jib the wind was 25k so we put in a second reef. Bruce was making diner - corn beef New England boiled diner in a pressure coker. He cut this finer and we went below to clean and bandage. This took 5 minutes and I got seasick doing that. First time in 20 years with this. I was 'Ok' vomiting once but then the wind was up to 35k so I went out to pull down the screecher as it had started to unfurl. It was dark we were moving 45 degrees off the wind in 40 dgree wind and 43 degree water. We were at an angel into the waves (6-10 feet) so there was a lot of spray) My hood was blown off and my wool hat. Water went down my back. It was hard to pull the screecher down. It unrolled 1/3 and the luffing snapped the sheet. I needed help from Ed to get it down and lashed. By the time I got back to the cockpit. I was hypothermic. and needed to be stripped dwon and wrapped on the settee with wool blankets. Ed joined me vomiting and in the salon into whatever we could find. Bruce Peter and reiner did a great job handling and unusual boat it tough conditions. Going to three reefs. Maybe we had done that on the second reefing.
This was the scene out the window in 45k with the jib and triple reefed main withteh boom set to midline and the wind at 180. Speed was a steady 19-20 with bursts to 22-23 according to the Immarsat recordings on my tracker website. This was with the bow sprit in the water! I had placed a scope patchand got over the nausea and the hypothermia but was still extreemly fatigued. We foudn that
