Sunbeat VI - Day 11 - its been a funny old day…

The day started off well, until we changed up to Big Red and eagle eyed Tim noticed that a block had come adrift at the top of the mast. To facilitate a repair, Big Red was dropped. Unfortunately it acquired a couple of small tears on the way down. These can be easily fixed with the spinnaker repair tape we have onboard.

Gallant skipper Steve was volunteered to climb the mast. After 2 trips up the mast (one to assess the problem and the second to take the parts up to fix it) the problem block was fixed. However… whilst at the top of the mast, Steve noticed that the main halyard had a small amount of chafe in it. Rather than wait for it to go at an inopportune time, we decided to take the main down, make a repair and at the same time, turn the halyard end for end to remove a second chafe that was found.

And just as all this was finished, we were hit by a squall, then were becalmed for 2 hours, waiting for the wind to return.

Everything now up and running again and just enjoyed a lovely meal cooked by Nige.