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Ah, the upwind leg that broke my heart. We were well ahead of 15 at the mark, but the main...

Ah, the upwind leg that broke my heart. We were well ahead of 15 at the mark, but the main sheet had broken and we were scrambling.

Location
Washington → Olympia
Photographer
Steve Wyant
Date taken

Comments

  • Broken? Yikes!

    — John Hovell

  • Yeah, the main attaches to the end of the boom, goes through a block attached to the deck at the stern of the boat, back to the boom, through the boom to mid-boat, down to a block on a post in the middle, and into my hand. The block on the stern was attached with, on this boat, a small, theoretically strong, piece of line. That line snapped. I went from a 3-to-1 purchase (loading at boom end and middle) to a 1-to-1, only at the middle. In the wind we were in, that basically meant going from hard-to-sheet-in to impossible-to-sheet-in.

    — Catherine Hovell