Sea Dragon South Atlantic  update 5Gyres

"I awoke from a much needed sleep after a helllish nightwatch last night. Rain, 15-20 foot seas, heaving Sea Dragon, falls, cuts, bruises - wind gusts up to 34 miles per hour and apparent wind blowing a solid 60 knots at times. 

This kind of night watch is a pure mental test. All your brain wants to think in this kind of weather is, "this sucks, this sucks, this is miserable." It takes concentration to overcome the negativity because the pure fact is this: you have four hours ahead of you sitting in a position where you're bracing yourself from falling and there is nothing you can do about it. You just must simply endure. Because someone needs to be on deck to watch the rigging, the wind, the autopilot, and alos, ships passing in the night. 

If we were just sailing, we'd go around this storm system, but we can't as we're attempting to get the first full linear transect of plastic pollution sampling across the South Atlantic ever conducted. That means staying the course, however impossible and painful it may be. "