Day 3- Smooth sailing (until it wasn't)

Cacanny
Wed 18 Jan 2023 20:11
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I am writing this on day four since day three
took a bit of a turn. It started out great, much smoother seas and making pretty
good speed. We even had two proper meals for lunch and dinner, it was
turning out to be exactly what we wanted.. right up until the evening. A lovely
dinner was in the oven, the spinnaker was out and flying beautifully, until the
wind stopped, or changed, and we went out to the deck to find the spinnaker
wrapped around the forestay. Dad said he had heard of this issue before but
never actually encountered it, we looked up and thought up solutions: back
winding it, gibing the mainsail, but it was one step forward and two steps back,
it would unwrap once, then wrap around again. Once it got dark we had to make
the decision to leave it until morning, still checking it every so often with
the flashlight, on the off chance the wind had unwrapped it, but we had no
such luck.
- Izzy
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