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Dala - The daily problem



Hi, all,

Today, except for about two hours without wind, we continued to enjoy our ride.

You may remember, in one of my former messages to the blog, I wrote that a friend of mine once told me that when sailing, every day brings with it a new problem!
Today was no exception, and we got an overriding of the genoa starboard sheet around the winch! (French: Un "surpattage" de l'ecoute tribord du genois autour du winch, une grosse galere!).
It took us four or five different attempts with an equivalent number of possible solutions to solve the problem. At one moment we even considered to CUT the sheet!
Finally, after about a tough fight, we succeeded to free this overriding...Of course, all this occured under a super strong rain, the strongest we had since the beginning of the Rally...
I said to my team mate, Richard: "I do not know the word in English, but in French, that incident is called a "surpattage". He replied: "In English, I would call that a "F....k!!!"

That's all, folks, as of now.
Bye,

Albert

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