In-mast furling gremlin? (Patreon)

Hi Guys!

In this week's video, we experienced a brush with one of my biggest fears - a mechanical issue with our 35-year-old in-mast furling. It turned out not to be a mechanical issue. Phew! We still haven't figured out what caused the issue. The only thing that makes sense is that we deviated from our standard sail furling procedure, which caused the problem, but I can't put my finger on what we did. We planned on heading straight to Turks and Caicos but suspecting an issue with the furling, we stopped in St Martin and lost our weather window. Instead, we ended up in the BVI.

In real-time news, it's now been two weeks since Ava flew to NYC to keep an eye on our niece. It sounds like she's having a fun time getting in some niece-aunt time :) Meanwhile, things on the boat have deteriorated into anarchy - the local grocery store is now sold out of frozen pizzas 😬 All joking aside things, I'm making good use of my bachelor time studying for my ABYC electrical certification and working on our new OC tender inspired dinghy design. I hope to be able to show some drawings in a few weeks. I'm not a boat designer! But I think I have some cool ideas that could make this dinghy even better than the OC tender - if I can get the hull shape right ;) Once I've built the dinghy and see that it works as intended, I plan on making the plan and instructions available online :)

I hope you're having a fantastic weekend :) Thank you so much for your support!