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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Summer 2011

Taking Whinchat out of the water…

March 15, 2011 Julia
Whinchat gets lifted out of the water...
Whinchat gets lifted out of the water…

We had an eventful sail down to Falmouth from the Hamble; 28 hours with the skipper stricken by sea-sickness meaning the first mate was left in charge.  A broken furling mechanism didn’t help when we were trying to reef the yankee, which meant that we just dropped all sails and motored much of the way…  Anyway.  Continue reading Taking Whinchat out of the water… →

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