I was awoken by a frantic call from Leroy. Something was wrong. During the night the “ghost sail”, which prevents the spinnaker from wrapping around the forestay had broken, and the spinnaker was now one with the forestay. Leroy quickly went up the mast and he untangled it.
I did some steering after the spinnaker incident and with the lack of wind, 10kts, it got hot!
Due to some severe wind shifts, we made a couple of gibes today. No always smoothly, but we didn’t break anything so you could probably consider it a success. During one of the gibes, the guy slipped and Leroy’s head got trapped between the forestay and the still loaded guy. This caused some serious rope burn on his face and he lost his sunglasses in the process.
The mark made by the guy on Leroy’s face.
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