The joy of carbon
If only the new 49er carbon rigs were around on Friday night…
I went out for a quick sail with Dave on his 49er in what was left of the gusty south-easterly, and we just put the kite up, did a gybe and were talking about how lame it was to be using an alloy rig in 2008, when next gybe, bang, we hit the piss and peel the Athens games mast off the boat.
Beautiful. An expensive 20 minutes on the water.
I caught the Point Piper YA mark as we drifted downwind, and tied up there as we tried to sort out the rubble. Thankfully we were in Sydney Harbour, and not Port Philip or San Fran in a run-out-tide. By the time we’d got everything together, the water police had arrived and gave us a tow back to the sailing club.
Welcome back to 49er sailing.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:46 am
damn, sorry to hear about that
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:05 am
Dono-san would have re-rigged it an sailed in….