![]() ![]() We all had an appreciation for why the spinnaker is called the “baklei seil” in sailing jargon after this episode. Getting the spinnaker back down was a relief as the alternative we discussed should the wind pick up too much would be to cut it away which would have been very expensive and we would no longer have a big bag for our down wind runs. ![]() ![]() It took us another hour to get it unwound, all the time having to “blind” the spinnaker with the genoa which was backed while the mainsail remained on a gybe preventer. We tried for over an hour to unwind the spinnaker to no avail and then resorted to once again sending Marcus up the mast by winching him up on the spare halyard so that he could manually unwind the big bag. We hadn’t managed to get the anti-wrap device up before hoisting the spinnaker and the problem was compounded by the spinnaker then getting wrapped inside the genoa as it furled itself. We decided to hoist the big purple spinnaker when the wind was a constant 10knots from behind but not giving enough attention to detail and ensuring that the genoa was tightly hauled in first we made a horrible mess of the whole procedure and managed to tangle the spinnaker around the front halyard and genoa. ![]()
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