As
part of Life of Reilly III's contribution to the 2019 ocean
cleanup campaign, we are bringing ashore an abandoned fishing net.
Yesterday
around 6 pm UTC Fred was looking astern and saw something strange
underwater. We fished out the boat hook, and Dirk attached a
safety line to it. Fred furled the jib and drove the boat into the
wind to reduce speed to 2 knots. Long armed Peter reached down
into the water with the boat hook as deep as he could go, and with
Dirk's assistance brought aboard one end of a fishing net, the
other end being securely fastened to the underbody of our vessel.
We secured our end of the net and resumed our original course and
sail set.
We
are now competing in this Rally under multiple handicaps, having
started a day late, lost our spinnaker, and lost the use of our
whisker pole, we are now forced to sail closer to the wind - not
on our preferred heading - and towing a fishing net too!
Well,
we were looking for a challenge. Now we have one.
Life of Reilly III