What a sail!!!!! We woke up early this morning after a pretty windy night on the hook. At 7 am the buoy at Fowey Rock was reporting 24 - 28 knts and of course the wind direction was straight upwind out of the channel.
We decided to wait to make a call on heading out but then we thought we might have a window between 9 -11 am to motor out of Government Cut. It was a steep choppy motor sail out (Thank You Mr. Sail-Drive) and we were finally able to bear off and Grey Hound was out of there!!!
The sail started with a double reefed main and jib with Grey Hound coursing between 8 - 10 knts in big seas and wind driven waves. As luck would have it was tighter then we needed............
so......?!? Does anybody need a wallet made out of Pentax?!? We've been babying the main and jib for a while now..........but our main is now pretty close to toast!!! No, we take that back. It is TOAST! Now don't get us wrong the main doesn't owe us anything since both main and jib have well over 7,000 nm in 5 seasons............... Guess the Florida sun was just a bit too much!!
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