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Sailing Solo: Forestay Failure in the South Pacific

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Uploaded by on Mar 21, 2011

100 miles North of Rarotonga my forestay parted dropping my jib and furler into the sea and leaving my mast vulnerable to collapse. This is a very rough cut video capturing a few minutes of the mayhem.

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  • Yeah, overall I was really lucky it happened in the morning on a fairly nice day. No question.

  • Ha. I am pretty happy with my carbon footprint on the world. Sea water will eat that aluminum in a couple of years time. Better in my mind to drop it in 12,000 feet that in a land fill.

  • I had a length of 6 mm 7x19 wire I made a forestay out of once I reached Palmerston Atoll. That rig got me from there to Tonga where another cruising gave me a long length of dyneema. I spliced a new stay out of the dyneema and sailed on that to New Zealand. Getting a whole new standing rig down here. Big job, but gives a lot of confidence for the Indian Ocean and Cape of Good Hope.

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  • yo man kick ass on ur trips i seen a cpl ya vids , i too am from pc live in callaway ur af?i go out from tydl marina all the time fishin

  • i know how it feels happend to me on my way from north japan to vancouver took me 4 hours to recover the whole gear not easy on a 48ft by myself ,

  • Dude, at least it is sunny and 80 degrees, and relatively calm seas.....

  • trowing things overboard???? you SUCK

  • So how did you ultimately get it repaired?

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