Hanse Sailor - Day 14 (Saturday): backup gennaker haleyard

Friday: the gennaker went down calmly into the water after a loud “SCHWONG”-ish sound. The halyard had snapped near the mast. We pulled it up on deck (the tack, the bottom front of the sail, was still attached to the bow at the boat) while switching to main sail.

Saturday: unable to fix the gennaker properly (we could not get Andy high enough to feed through the fixed gennaker halyard as the Jib halyard, used for Andy’s harness, had a too low exit point in the mast). Instead we used the jib halyard to bring the gennaker up. It was the set up for the evening and surprise surprise, one of the gennaker sheet snapped around ten in the evening. So in with the gennaker and out with the main. We anyway manage to pass Dona Flor during the night which was a bit interesting since she hadn’t got her AIS switched on until we passed her.

 

Johan, on Hanse Sailor