Richards Bay to Durban

We arrived at the Bluff yacht club yesterday morning from a long and hard sail from Richards’s bay. The journey started  on the bad side were we tried  to reef the main sail and found out that the clue was out of place so we had to make a make shift rope for the clue. After we sorted the sail we decided to leave the harbour on our big journey to New Zealand. I was both happy and scared I think I was 90% scared and 10% exited or was it 90% exited or 10% scared I really don’t know but either way it defiantly was fun. We motor sailed most of the way and the motion of the boat made me tired. I went and had a nap so that I could be awake for the night. I woke up to the scream of my dad to Ryun and my mom saying “What is going on!” and I jumped to my feet  and run out side to see our head sail flapping crazily in the night sky. I saw Ryan on the one side of the boat and my dad on the other trying to roll the sail in after getting torch out for my dad I don’t know what we saw but at least we got the sail rolled up. Later we decided to take out a little of the head sail and our speed went from 5 knots to 6 knots.

We were all complaining about how cold it is and Ryun was in shorts, I thought he had a mental problem bur this morning I found out that he was freezing but he was too sick to get warm cloths. Not only was the weather freezing but our auto pilot thought we should hand steer through the night and just stopped working so we ended up taking shifts the only word that came out of our mouths that night was dad it is your shift or Ryan do you want to take the helm and Rauen come take over. As the day approached Durban got closer and Richards’s bay got farther. As we got close to the harbour our starboard motor cut out. Typical that we are one hour away and we can’t reef our sail we only have one motor and no auto pilot and it does not help that no one has slept.

We got into the Bluff yacht club and docked and the first person that spoke to us was Mike and he told us to eat sleep then move our boat. We went up to the restraint and had a lovely breakfast. I instantly looked for a place to skateboard and found out the only good place to skateboard had a sign that said no skateboarding I was so unhappy, so the only place I can skateboard is unknown. Not only are they taking way my skateboarding pleaser but there are no girls either so I’m going to be a bored man.    

Me at sunrise as we arrive in Durban