Moment of panic, were they Orcas or just dolphins? Two more sightings with the binoculars confirmed they were Orcas coming in our direction

Eyes glued on the water, Ella going crazy and there it was a huge whale surfacing 50-100 meters to our starboard!

We took a sneaky short cut exiting the Ajaccio gulf by passing in between the Iles Sanguinaires (the Bloodthirsty islands, interesting name)

The boom jumped further to port side with a slam and stayed in that position. The German Mainsheet system looked weird but it was not broken

At this point we experienced 3 knots of current against us. Running the engine at 2000RPMs we were only doing slightly above 3knots of speed

Think it’s safe to say that at this point we both felt this was more than we had bargain for, the winds were way stronger than forecasted

I woke up due to the rolling swell and feeling really cold. John was furling the Jib, the winds had just picked up that extra notch