We were up and listened to the net, then off to the boat. The guys from the sail loft were at the boat by 9 am and started working on removing the old sails. They stoped around 1 pm due to wind issues and started back at 4 pm. In the morning, there were 3 of them working, in the afternoon at least 5. The main sail (that had ripped) apparently had gotten pretty well tied up and as a result it came out of the roller furling in little pieces. Good thing we have new sails here in La Cruz. They will go up after we are out of the yard. There was some work done on drying out the keel, and we got shore power on the boat.
You can see the sail is torn at the bottom, that is not the tear we saw that caused us to put it away.So one of the guys is up the mast pulling the sail out. This was truly an all day event. the tear we saw while sailing was above his head.This is a close up of what happens when a pair of pliers are dropped from up the mast and they hit the cloth (sunbrella) for the dodger windows. Yes, it is hole that goes all the way through, and yes it was off the dodger so, no damage to the windows.There were at least 3 people before lunch and 5 later in the afternoon working on getting the sails down and outAs you can see the sail came down in pretty small pieces.They started at about 9 am, and this is sunset here in La Cruz, still working..
