Ca Canny - Day 3- Smooth Sailing (until it wasn't)

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I am writing this on day four since day three took a bit of a turn. It started out great, much smoother seas and making pretty good speed. We even had two proper meals for lunch and dinner, it was turning out to be exactly what we wanted.. right up until the evening. A lovely dinner was in the oven, the spinnaker was out and flying beautifully, until the wind stopped, or changed, and we went out to the deck to find the spinnaker wrapped around the forestay. Dad said he had heard of this issue before but never actually encountered it, we looked up and thought up solutions: back winding it, gibing the mainsail, but it was one step forward and two steps back, it would unwrap once, then wrap around again. Once it got dark we had to make the decision to leave it until morning, still checking it every so often with the flashlight, on the off chance the wind had unwrapped it, but we had no such luck.

- Izzy