We rigged the boat and sailed out to sea, it is always a wonderful feeling of freedom that appear in my mind and heart as soon as we left the boat pier, the port, entering the high seas.. :)
Today was meant to be a practice day for gybing with spinnaker and practice to hoist and to take it down too..
Well, how did it go then? At least I can say - We got some practice!!
We cruised out to a mark and pretended that it was our jibe mark, the tick around the mark went well, we fell off and began to hoist the spinnaker. Me trying to keep track of all the sheets and put the spinnaker pole in the right position, while my helmsman hoisted the spinnaker..
What a nice view, looking up at a spinnaker catching the wind and pulling the boat steady forward.. For a while we had a good practice, gybing, hoisting and pulling down the spinnaker..
We didn't had time to notice the wind shift.. It was a bit more wind and we started sailing upwind again, trying to find the nice jibe mark. We got ready for a new hoisting, and it went very well.. Then it was time for and ordinary jibe and then it just happened!!
I'm trying to recall that happened and I think that I let the spinnaker sheets go to early.. The spinnaker got some extra wind in a jibe and it took the possibility and swirled around the top of the boat mast. Our boat started to lean a lot and was about to roll over..
We decided to pass the boat on the side, I swam towards the mast top and removed the spinnaker from the top. I realised then that the small black thing that before had flew passed me, just before the spinnaker swirled, was the vindex..
We got the boat flat again, and got the spinnaker back into the boat.. Then we just sailed some half wind trapeze back into the harbour.. :)
An eventful and rewarding sailing - us feeling very much alive ;)
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