Robin
Well-known member
Many thanks to Richard alias rb-stretch and James from Hana and moral support from quite a few others like Becky who came to our aid when I lost main halyard up the mast in Cherbourg last Sunday. Very embarassing, I was pulling a new and highly expensive new Dyneema halyard up tied to the mouse loop which broke on the old halyard leaving us with very red faces and no halyard to sail home with. SWMBO went on strike and wouldn't do the deed as we thought some muscle might be needed up top if the mouse line had jammed in a sheave and yours truly had done something to his back, even IF SWMBO could have pulled me up! Richard was a couple of berths away and kindly volunteered his crew James for the job and even brought a gert great winch handle over to use, together with another couple of guys from a Moody 336 next door helping to crank it.
Looking around in Cherbourg there were several forum folks that did make it there last weekend despite the fog. Becky, Talulah, rb-stretch and of course me that I recognised and rallyveteran I see from another post. We left on Friday afternoon and had 50m vis in the lanes and off Cherbourg and clear patches on the UK side and unbelievably between the 2 lanes, maximum 6kts of wind directly on the nose from Poole. We came back yesterday (Tuesday) with just the genoa in F5-F6 tailwind in just 9 hours, easy fast sail, no radar required and didn't even get to test the new non stretch main halyard!
Anyway many thanks again to all, my bad back magically recovered once the deed was done, it must have been the effort of watching that relaxed the muscles!
Robin
Looking around in Cherbourg there were several forum folks that did make it there last weekend despite the fog. Becky, Talulah, rb-stretch and of course me that I recognised and rallyveteran I see from another post. We left on Friday afternoon and had 50m vis in the lanes and off Cherbourg and clear patches on the UK side and unbelievably between the 2 lanes, maximum 6kts of wind directly on the nose from Poole. We came back yesterday (Tuesday) with just the genoa in F5-F6 tailwind in just 9 hours, easy fast sail, no radar required and didn't even get to test the new non stretch main halyard!
Anyway many thanks again to all, my bad back magically recovered once the deed was done, it must have been the effort of watching that relaxed the muscles!
Robin
