2013JUL17 - 1600 PDT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgrX7uOZqHI
All's well!
After some challenging sailing in a nuclear squall, as dark as the inside of a cow, with their biggest spinnaker they brought up there were concerns on board the mighty Warrior this morning. These concerns were reported and subsequently appeared on the front page of Sailing Anarchy this morning http://sailinganarchy.com/2013/07/17/park-up/ causing some anxiety among my audience and myself.
It now turns out that perhaps those concerns were overstated after a long night at the redline.
After a couple of downgrades the extent of the damage to the boat is now reported as a mark on the bottom left by the trailer cradle.
I'd suggest that any boat might get to feeling a little lose sailing downwind, among the floating hazards from the Japanese Tsunami, at oh dark thirty, in the middle of the Pacific doing at 20 knots.
The biggest question the crew on board have this afternoon is whether they prefer sailing at 16 knots with a wet ass or 9 knots without diaper rash. So far a wet ass is the run away winner!
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