Nice wind in the back but large swell. We had about 2.5-3 m waves, lucky with 12-15 sec in between.
You can see this if you look at the pics and see how the ocean diva hides behind the waves.
Around 19h we were doing some wonderfull sailing, a race between OD and Dragonfly. Dragonfly was losing but we changed sailes (put 3 on) and it looked like we were coming closer again.
The weather was looking very bad, Mario (captain OD) decided to play safe and they put a reef in the sail (=made the sail smaller). Lynn was trying to take the head sail down but got stuck with her hands between the winch and the ropes. She was quite badly hurt. Mario fixed her up as good as he could.
We heard about the accident over the VHF. At that point we were in the middle of the sea and had to sail for at least 7 more hours to get into the Marina (first suitable Marina).
We (Dragonfly) arrived very late in Gijon, around 2.00am and had done about 85 NMiles (x 1.8km).
Most of us have been a little seasick but all by all we did well.
We had a lot of wind from the back.
Joris and Kristof waited for the Ocean Diva which arived around 3.30h.
Lynn and Kristof went to the hospital.
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