Maamalni - Leg 4: #9 - Woo Ho! Or, When Knotty Things happen

Winds Up and MaaMa flies! The wind has finally "freshened" from the south and finally MaaMa is able to make a westerly course. We fiddle farted around with headsail and main and finally make the decision around noon to fly the 'kite'. 2 hours later and 12 knots of wind we get the damn thing out of the sleeve and flying. So what gave? Only the important control line, which you allows to take the 'sock' up and down or douse the kite when the boat becomes overloaded. Seems that the connection point have torn out, so 2 shackles, 2 hours, 2 re-rigs , and we have 2000 square feet of Dacron pulling us westward to Tahiti at 7.5 knots and now its time for 2 Gin Tonics.

Fair Winds _/), Michael and Suzan