 Two knots and we've had 20-30 knots for the last two hours which is only 10 knots above the forecast. So I'm on the third reef of every town. About an hour into the sail I thought right I better put the second reef in and as I was doing it I was thinking you know what I don't trust the the forecast I should put the third reef in. But I was making six knots and it's nice to make six knots with a dirty hole. So I, oh Django's a bit right out loud there, so I left the second reef, got back into a cockpit and immediately regretted it. So I sat for an hour knowing that I should put the third reef in until the boom was in the water. And then our bollocks. So I went and just put the third reef in now. And we're down to 5.4 knots now which is alright. So third reef everything and looking at the wind now I've just had a look I've still got a bit of phone signal. All the forecasts are wrong even the really detailed one that's only good for a day and a half. They're all wrong. The closest one as usual is GFS and GFS is going to be like this the whole time and when I go around the corner it's going to be worse. So if I knew that I don't know whether I'd have left. So yeah it's going to be third reef all the way. The wind has veered and dried a little bit. So we're on a broad reach now. Much more comfortable thank the Lord and we're making on average 5 knots a little bit below a little bit above. I've unfurled, I forgot my words. So we've got a bit more Genoa out now so second reef kind of on the Genoa. I could put some more out but I don't want to because this is okay. It's been a tough morning, really tough morning and unfortunately one of my beautiful crystal whiskey glasses went flying across the boat and smashed so I've got glass in my little cubby behind the chart desk, lots and lots of little shards of glass, crystal glass. That's a shame. That's how bad it was when I put in the third reef boat was on our air, it really was. We're going to be at the corner at something like 5 o'clock. I'm not looking at the weather until we get there because it'll change and then all the planning and assumptions and blah will go out the frigging window when I think again about what to do. So I'm just going to get there to Kevin and Al, I'll be very close to the shoreline then so I'll have good phone signal and then we'll update all the weather and then work out what the plan is. Well that's a first, I've just let out the main up to the first reef, I've got a chicken, I should really let her all out but look that batten is twisted, how the hell did that happen? What do I fix it? I've got to bring that down now, try and untwist that, well the wind, I don't think the wind will do it because the most pressure is in the bit that's the wrong way around. Right look, fixed it and to drop it to the third reef, get the boom over the centre of the boat and then just untwist it in the middle and then get the blooming sail back up, it would have been easier if I headed up, it's a bit of a struggle hoisting the main sail then. Never mind, we're off again, still only doing three and a half knots but we're going in the right direction, I'm hot now, oh I might make a cup of tea, it's hard work to sail in Malaki, even when there's hardly any wind like now, yeah well that looks fucking ominous doesn't it, I've got about 20 minutes before it hits me I think, I'll just finish my cup of tea and I'll put the third reef back in, oh my days, it's almost here but I'm ready, I've got the third reef and a preventer, the Genoa is flogging a little bit right now but I can wrap that up real quick, engine's on, thought I might as well put it on now so I can charge up the battery for later, just need to put my jacket on and get the slats for the door and light up a fag, that's the normal routine, yeah I think I'm going to do that now, red sky at night, Spain's on fire, lighthouse is on dim, I've got no wind in all the waves, earlier I had all the wind, it's going to be a tough night but luckily I've eaten, filled up the fuel tank, the main just in case, so we're good to go I thought I'd show you this for a laugh, we're currently approaching the corner here, I do not have, I think that wind is, 12 knots of wind, I've got more like 7, look what's happening as the night goes on, the wind is dying, oops jumped ahead, the wind is dying until, about 20 hundred, 8 o'clock, starts to fill in, by midnight, strong strong, at 2 o'clock in the morning I'm going to be getting hammered, so I need to put the third reefs in well early, but luckily, 3 o'clock hammered, 5 o'clock, 4 o'clock easing, 6 o'clock easing, 7 o'clock easing, so basically between midnight and 4 I'm going to get hammered, you see, this is 20 plus knots, 21 knots there, 22 knots and that's the steady wind, if I show the gusts, you can find the gusts, there it is, I really don't want to watch this, so there you go, you see gusts 25, 27, I'll be in all in this area here, so it's going to be 20 gusts in 27, 28 further, easing now, let's go back a little bit, looks like 2 o'clock, I thought it was 3 earlier, no looks like 2 o'clock it's going to be hammer time, I can expect gusts up to 28 knots, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah so I'm ready for it, but again this is the forecast and so far it's been wrong, that one's GFS which has been closest to the truth, so probably the last video before the sun goes down well, the squall's going through all day, so I'll promise you, so I've had a bit of everything, it's been a bit exhausting but we're all right, lighthouse is on dim, Spanish coast, the headland there is Cabadilla now and then I'm going to turn and head southwest, south-southwest for the rest of the trip down to Toreva and the forecasts are either terrible or really terrible or, eh, or terrible, so I'm going with terrible, I'm going to try and stay as close as possible to the shore whilst keeping safe because that's where the wind's supposed to be lightest, a bit offshore and we'll be up to 25 knots which I'm not looking forward to and over there have been a few flashes of lightning but they're miles away and the weather radar on windy doesn't predict any lightning where I am so I'm happy with that, I'd like a little more breeze now and a little less breeze later but you know, you get what you get, I'm just kind of getting everything ready for the night time, I've got the third reef in the main, I'm not using it at the moment, I got all the Genoa out right now but I'll be whipping that in when we turn the corner I guess because I think it's going to be third reef everything and hold on for dear life until about five in the morning, let you have a little look see, I don't know if this will come up on again, 10 gusting 30 conditions which means that I'm reefed for 30, well I don't know if it's 30 yet, it's certainly in the 20s that's for sure, so I'm reefed all the way for that which means when I'm not in the gust we're hardly going, 3.4 knots waiting for the next gust to come along and just died completely from 20 plus knots third reef scooting along at five knots in the gusts to as you can see cockle it's bending down over there somewhere and it really miraculously just completely the wind stopped, now one of the forecasts did say that this would happen, how it can happen like this I really don't know because it says like there's this bit of small area here with no wind and 25 knots either side of it and I was in 25 knots and now I'm in nothing but that forecast has changed now and it's not saying that anymore which is funny because all of these forecasts have been complete poppy talk more words to that effect, anyway look there's a chart and everything proper sailing this I've got charts I've got torches I've got sales yeah I'm getting tired now definitely getting tired so I'm having a brew and a smoke and I'm kind of thinking maybe just heave to and have 15 minutes kip except I can't heave too because there's no wind let's see there's the leg alley my tea's in there already I've lost my night vision because I put this light on that's the that's what I was wearing during the daytime that's the coastal version it is all right there's my bed it's calling me that's for sure the fridge is off although there is beer in there it's quite cold and yeah all of this is full of broken glass shards of broken glass from what it came from came from here at three tumblers tumblers glasses and that he got launched right across made it all the way onto the chart table and then smashed so I've got some cleaning up to do when we get there I got a message earlier that they're going to lift me out on Thursday which is great because I'm going to arrive on Tuesday and I've got Tuesday night and Wednesday night booked in a little hotel type thing so I'm going to have to extend that stay but that's all right I don't know what time I'll get there if there's no wind I'll never get there so it won't matter right I'm gonna have my brew now those mint menthols are taking pride of praise aren't they I like to have a little suck every now and then and on that note thunderstorm over there it's a long way away nothing to worry about what I do have to worry about is the complete lack of wind price for the most inaccurate weather forecast goes to all of them they're all that's supposed to be in 25 knots of wind from that direction and if you look at the sail the wind is coming from the other direction so 180 degrees out and 30 knots well they're about idiots fancy being a met nun when I was a teenager I like that bit of geography anyway the problem is this two knots because I have a dirty bottom and a dirty crop as well probably then I got out of 1.3 you know I can't make any way I tried it out earlier with maximum revs I think I got three and a half knots let's try again Italian tuna so you see it's going to take me a long time at two knots to cover the final 42 miles of this journey the maths is simple I'm not going to spend 21 hours on the motor to get there what I am if the wind doesn't come in I'm supposed to be on a beam reach in 20 knots this is terrible and I'm exhausted and because the weather is so wrong that all the forecast is so wrong that I'm frightened to go and have a little 10 minute kit now even though there's no one around because you just don't know what's going to happen anything could happen I want to be asleep when it does what am I lucky I'd like to say it was unpredictable but it's very predictable we've gone from no wind to too much wind now I'm making six and six and a bit knots I've got third reef in the main second reef in the Genoa I'm clearly over canvas I'm going to take in a bit of the Jenny now nightmare well not difficult but it's just a pain either no wind or too much wind every time 1.30 in the morning I had battered and bruised been blowing a hooli since three o'clock it started off really bad and about 4.15 somebody turned it down one notch I've had three and a half reefs in the jib all night I've been doing six and a half knots at times it's ridiculous it's starting to ease now which is why I popped inside to make a brew and just pick the camera up and show you the crack of dawn is quite big actually it is great because I can't really take much more half past nine and it's still tasty this is 25 just in 28 and it's still got three hours to go there's them all engines is back into wind and it was a nightmare getting in because I was right I could barely make headway into the wind motor sails with full power on the engine inside the outer then as soon as I pulled the power back on the engine the high temperature high water temperature alarm went off because I put the thrust levers forwards again thrust levers it's not an airplane you didn't put the throttle forward inducing more water flow through the engine which put off the alarm all right there's a little trick trick for anyone it's uh something I learned on gas turbine engines when you get high oil temperature because the oil is cooled by the fuel so if you increase the thrust you increase the fuel flow which increases the cooling of the oil but that's for another day isn't it today I'm going over there well over there is the boat yard so I'm going to walk past and see if anyone's in the office but I don't think they will be because siesta that's the apartment that I'm staying in for two nights at least but I guess it's got to be more now because I'm not getting it's Tuesday today and I'm getting hold out on Thursday and I bet they have to keep it over the weekend and they don't work on the weekend and then I'll be here on Monday and then I'll be in a weather window to get back to Valencia and it'll be more hell my god why do I do this by the way my boat looks fantastic everyone who's walked past so far has told me how lovely she is that's what it means to have a twister I'll do a little pan-chop from over there in a minute there she is winter looks smart don't they