Lessons Learned: Losing the Forestay While Sailing Offshore
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Lessons learned and shared with this community so we all can learn a bit from a scary and dangerous situation. While sailing offshore from Panama to Saint Maarten I lost my forestay about 20nm north of Aruba. Half this video is an explanation of what happened, and the other half is the lessons I’ve learned from this experience.
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