Fw: Breakages
Raylah
Jeremy Elsom
Mon 7 Dec 2009 16:56
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----- Original Message -----
From: yacht Raylah
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 6:51 PM
Subject: Breakages My life on this ARC is defined by breakages, it
started innocently enough with a dropped china mug, there was only one on board,
the last of a set of six. Slowly they got lost over board, dropped down a
locker, smashed in a squall and even a drunken crew member managed to head one
into the water. Anyway the last one went as we started the ARC. The person
passing it to the table, fell backwards, threw the mug over his shoulder and it
disintegrated on the bulkhead.
Then there was the plates and bowls, Tesco's
plastic best! been with me for three boats. One decided to literally fall in
half with my meal on it, and then large bite size pieces fell out of two more
plates as if we had a huge plastic eating beetle on board. Three pairs of
glasses have been sat on and broken.
Then things got serious! First my finest, top of
the range £200 snap shackle cracked off the end of the spin boom and fell into
the water. This was followed by the Genoa sheet chafing to pieces in the claw of
the spinnaker pole, and another rubbing itself in half on the main boom
preventer. Then the new spinnaker pole broke its clip and fell off the mast onto
my head. To follow the block on the top of the mast holding up the
parasail decided to explode today and we parasail no more and a trip up the mast
is planned. However the greatest disaster is the breakage of the
left hand hinge on the toilet seat which means our bottoms take on a rotational
movement when hovering over a gyrating bowl. However we press on regardless
our sights on bigger things, not deterred by these minor
irritations.
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