[quote=coastrat]well,...you went out with a bang! that will leave an image burned on your mind all winter...
last year about the same time we were sailing to horn island in 25kt winds/5-7 seas and heard a couple of "noises" on the way out. about 1/4mile from the island "BANG" the mast comes down! we were imediately racing back into the boiling sound torwards the saw grass wasteland of west alabama. highly motivated, we steped the mast and used the jib halyard to tie off the forestay. we jibed her around and with the main only sailed the most blistering broad reach surfing the huge swells i have ever sailed! when we hit the beach we felt like supermen...then the reality set in. torn jib, broken forestay pigtail, hole in starboard hull(happened at the landing spot), and a whole bunch of other repairs that i suddenly realized i "needed". done for season.
the memory of flying hulls through 5-7' waves head on haunted me all winter. its the high i'm still chasing(minus the mast blowing down).[/quote]
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