Hello Everyone,
Well we had a bit of excitement last night. Around 9pm the line (halyard) that holds our big front sail (gennoa) up snapped and the sail started to come down. It was quite a job getting her down (and not losing her overboard) and into the boat so sort out. In the process we managed to tear it as well. To put up our other one, we need to go up the mast to sort out a problem there. At the moment we are corkscrewing around, pitching and bucking in quite a large swell, so we have decided to motor/sail the rest of the way seeing as we were nearing our destination. That way we will sort it all out in the marina. We ended up with this huge sail in the middle of the saloon, with not enough space to fold her properly. It took us quite awhile to sort it out and get it down to a manageable size. We are now 283nm from Mindelo on Sao Vincente, our destination and 131nm from Sao Santiago if we need to pull in earlier. We keep smiling - after all, we are doing this for fun!!
Love to all.
Arti & Dimitri
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