Royal Ocean Racing Club Rolex Fastnet Race 2001 ---------------------------------- Fastwave 2
DAY 3 - Back Again
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Turning downwind the sea mamals returned to revel in our increased speed and bow wave. Earlier in the night they had arrived and shooting through the water had lit up beautiful luminescent trails in the water. |
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The first of
several spinnaker peels as wind strength changed
requiring either the 0.5 or 0.75 oz weight kite. Here Ash is taking the clew of the new kite up to the pole end before preparing to release the old kite from the spinnaker guy. All very complicated and you're not getting me up there in a hurry! |
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Up goes the new spinnaker inside the old. Both these shots were taken from the fore hatch where the author was 'sewering'. Similar to it's namesake, if you get it wrong you can end up very wet and in a lot of s*ht. |