I’ve got lots to enter in this log and not so much time to do it. But I stole 30 minutes to update and will go back and fill in the smaller adventures we’ve had since leaving Kingston.
Yesterday Keven Piper of Bay Sails installed a new furler. It looks beautiful in pieces and hopefully today I’ll get down to the marina and check it out.
As he was taking the forestay off he discovered that the forestay core wire was broken. At some point the forestay was twisted and broke the core. Before he took it apart a visual inspection would have said, “This is Perfect”. Not so!! Good catch Keven.
Remember that the genoa looked like this for 24 hours In very heavy wind so it is no surprise that the forestay was going to be highly stressed. Part of a new furler is a new forestay, which is a very good thing.
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Very good catch.