One of the last nights




......and the nature just wanted to show us who the boss is. We escaped a few squalls but then one hit us and we had around 30 knots of wind before we could bring the Parasailor down at 5 in the morning. So we just kept it up and made sure it was not flapping around and it survived.
Afterwards we took it down for 2 hours and then brought it back up again. Wind ist still strong and we are doing more than 8 knots constantly.
Now one of the few thing i need before arrival is a hair cut. Lets see if we manage that today :-)


























This picture shows how the squalls are shown on our radar

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