When you reach any coast you pretty much feel you are home safe except when you don't have an anchorage and a 40 knot front passes around the top of Sumatera.Tacking upwind in 40 at night isn't much fun so pulled all sails down and turned downwind to get away from the coast and everything hard to hit or so we thought. We were still dong 6 to 7 knot with no sails up and losing ground to where we were meant to be going. Deployed a rope drouge to slow down. Now everything under control. Boat was now slowed but still moving with steerage. We had a bit of moon glow luckily as everything is not so bad when you can see a bit .Karin was at helm, me now sleeping when "fuck", she just sees and narrowly misses (by a foot max)a indo FAD. These are big tied bundles of giant 20ft long bamboo anchored in the middle of nowhere in 300 metres of water that fish swim around under. No light, just a piece of bamboo sticking up, maybe!
By morning,with a relatively good rest,started back up wind, west, to Pulau Weh. Suns out now, all is forgotten. Spurred on by radio call from friends further south with good surf and friendly Indo people.
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