At shortly after 0700 we changed MaRe’s night gown for her day time working dress. With reef 2 in the mainsail replaced by reef 1 and the genoa fully unfurled, MaRe was running above 7 KN already with the untrimmed mainsail. Thus, more than 8 KN where to be expected for quite some times of the day. This all would have led to a day distance of more than 160 NM.<\/p>\n
But then….<\/p>\n
… there was bang and the boom was on the cockpit roof and the mainsail was down as well.<\/p>\n
Broken main halyard was my first thought but turning my eyes towards the mast I saw that the head of the sail was damaged. There are 3 ribbons, which are connecting the sail to the aluminum part of the sail head. All 3 ribbons are broken.<\/p>\n
I knew immediately that we are safe and can sail – limited so – with the genoa. We simply kept and are keeping on with the genoa.<\/p>\n
After storing the mainsail in the sail bag and clearing all lines up, I contacted the “maintenanceservice” on Hiva-Oa and described what happened. Pretty immediately I got the answer that they have a sail maker.<\/p>\n
Therefore we changed plans and route and we sail directly to Hiva-Oa. We should be able to make until Sunday or Monday.<\/p>\n
Then we have to see. That’s sailing as well.<\/p>\n
We are progressing with an average SOG of 3.4 KN since the sail broke. We also had after a short rain shower a “Kartoffelacker” with only 4 – 6 KN for a while. With TWS of about 16 KN we make 4+ KN STW. VMG (velocity made good) to WPT is a bit higher and the most important one. What counts at the end is our arrival time and not and a certain speed we look at. Please keep fingers crossed that we 20 – 25 KN during the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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