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July 14, 2019, 1830
The Bretwalda team had a great start and trip to the west end of Catalina. Good Call crossed us just before we cleared the point at the west end without having to tack from the start. Many in our fleet tacked up right after the start and that became lost distance to us. Once we cleared the end of the island it was light for a few hours then we got into the breeze. It became very choppy and with winds in the 20's. It was sloppy and the boat was on it's side making the general task of eating, dressing or any other life skills extremely difficult.
The start of day 2 we decide to go to a Code0, this made the boat plane faster but we were on the edge of disaster for the next 20 hours with a reef, 0, and jib all up. The closer we sailed to the edge the better we did on the fleet. We are now into Day 3 and flying a Code A2.
We had one scare with the charging. Our usual charging RPM was causing the batteries to turn off. Jay played around and finally go the to start charging. Since we make our own water it was a bad situation. We do dehydrated food for the most part, guys are trading their portions of some of the flavors for others already. Everyone is doing great and pressing hard.