Exocet Strike - 29-30 January 2017

Great sailing conditions yesterday and overnight, 15 to 17 knots of wind, not too many clouds, but also no fish! We passed the 1/4 and 1/3 distance overnight and this afternoon, just. Today the wind has been light and dead behind, with enough swell to make the main slam alarmingly, we hate it when it's like this. So this afternoon we tried something different, we dropped the main and pulled up the new staysail on the inner forestay, so normal Genoa poled out one side and stasis the other,miss what many would call wing on wing. Instead of having to be 20 to 30 degrees off course to try to minimise the mainsail slamming we are able to sail comfortably, and quietly dead down wind, with not much drop off in boat speed.
The next few days are going to be light and slow so this new, to us, configuration may be really helpful.