SAILING FAIL we rip the sail - Ep 52

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Sailing Fail we rip the sail
We are sailing from Taveuni to Savusavu, northern Fiji and the wind is on our tail, a perfect time to bring out ‘The Big Sail’.
Roaring along Rob gives us a little lesson in the difference between true wind and apparent wind. However, the biggest lesson we learn is take the sail down before the wind increases. We struggled to take the power out of the gennaker.
Through trial and error, we eventually hauled her in but not before we had ripped the bottom panel to shreds and Rachel lost half a fingernail. How rum!
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Music
Cricket Farm – Bending Spoons
Zero D – Coconut wireless
Olympus – Epic and dramatic trailer music
David Mumford – Night without sleep instrumental

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In 1997, after a disastrous Olympic rowing campaign, Rob decided to row a seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race.
Skip forward to 2014, we invested in Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Robert’s 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel’s non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with our three children, Finn 17, Declan 15 and Ivan 12, in tow.
Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of. Our plan? To sail around the world, meet the locals and record our adventures. Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed.

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Thank you to Wikipedia for their convoluted explanation of true wind, apparent wind, vector sums and additive inverse.