heading north at 4kn. Jib poled out to port and mainsail to starboard with
preventer on. What that means, nonsailors, is that there is a pole sticking
out to the left of the boat with the rope to the headsail through the end of
it. This keeps the headsail spread out and stops in flapping around as the
boat rolls. The mainsail is sticking out the right hand side of the boat
with a rope from the back end of the sail to the front of the boat pulling
the rear of the sail forward. This keeps the mainsial behaving it´s self and
stops it shooting across to the other side to the boat as the boat rolls.
When that happens it´s called a gybe and is noisy, scary and goes BANG! Work
of the devil, to be avoided at all costs.
But right now sailing beautiful. Please stay like this forever! Or could
this just be yet another teasing nautical lesson on tolerance and
acceptance. We´ll see.
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