[password] ninkea14
[position] 05 37.07N 083 13.33W
[weather] Some heavy clouds around. SW winds 15-12kn
[status] Day 3 Motor sailing, still! with a staysail closed hauled. Some people might wonder what we do all day stuck on a small boat. Today we had lots to keep us busy. It was fuel transfer day. We had a 200 litre drum of diesel in the cockpit as we knew we would need extra fuel for the first part of the journey. It took considerable effort to get the liquid to start flowing into the 1 inch hose down into the cabin, towards the cabin floor, into the 'baja' filter held above the fuel tank intake. My job was to hold the filter above the intake. Once it started, it came roaring down. I was told this would happen, so I was prepared, or so I thought. My fingers couldn't stop or slow the flow, instead all I managed to do was re-direct the flow everywhere but into the filter. As the skipper came to my rescue and I sat there holding the increasingly heavy filter, I kept wondering if diesel on my face and neck would help my dry skin.
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