eventful night...
Island Kea II
Steve and Katrin Everett
Wed 7 Apr 2010 18:17
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7:52 S 116:01W
We are now over half way.
We celebrated with a glass of wine with
dinner.
We had a bit of an unplesant surprise about 9pm as
the outhaul of the mainsail let go and we had the mainsail flapping
uncontrolled.
Luckily it did not get caught on the spreaders and
we managed to roll it away. It turned out to be a shackle which had worked
loose and opened up. We managed to get everything back together in the
dark and just as those of us not on watch were getting back to sleep lots of
banging from the front of the boat as the spinnaker pole lines came out and the
pole slid to the bottom.
We were not able to get it back up.. decided
to wait until daylight before messing about on deck too much at it will probably
involve going slightly up the mast.
It is a stark reminder how constant movements, as a
result of sailing for several days can make things work loose.
We are now sailing along nicely, more or less in
the right direction.
There is plenty of opportunity to catch up with
sleep... :-)
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