People kept asking if I would do a video tour of Samsara. Then last week, my son Hugo came to join me in Jersey, and we ended up in St Malo and the River Rance β where a windless and sunny morning provided the perfect opportunity. For years aboard Largo , I had struggled to find a way of adjusting the genoa cars without getting wet.
In the end. The mistake I made was trying to move the cars remotely. All I needed was leave them where they were and add a pair of twings. With mine, the lines go forward to a redundant deck fitting and then back to a pair of jammers in the cockpit. John thanks for the tour and the twing idea. I find the trisail stay very interesting, I have not seen one before, only mast tracks. A Google search did not turn out any usable return. Would you be able to provide some information, as how the top and bottom are connected, length and diameter, and your comments on the usage, etc.
Much appreciated. John, thanks for your offerings, always a good read. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
A Think Piece β from my old newspaper days β was when something significant happened, and the editor needed to give it the appropriate amount of space but had run out of facts to put in it. This time, the thoughts came battering at my door. I had just returned from lunch with a pair of long-lost cousins lost for 20 years and 50 years, respectively β so you will forgive the bottle of wine which I seemed to have all to myself. Anyway, there I was, lying on the bunk attempting to sleep it off when all I could think of was Guy de Boer.
Those parts of the internet that pay attention to this sort of thing are alive with pictures of his boat Spirit aground in the surf β alongside comments that everyone is so glad the Spanish rescue service managed to get him off safely. Now there are hopes that the boat may yet be salvaged and sail again. As the remaining 14 skippers press on towards Cape Town and on from there for a total of 30, miles call it somewhere between and days , singlehanders all over the world are thinking: It could have been me.
