Day 9 - Puerto Mogan - Antigua

What a day! We recorded our best run to date of 130 miles, but at a price! We had been sailing with the genoa poled out to windward and full main out to leeward for around 40 hours. We were doing well and happy with the boat set-up this way. Just after tea the wind picked up a little but we were still going well, at one point touching over 7.5 knots! As I was writing the logbook after tea I decided we should pull the genoa in the for night incase it got any windier and replace it with the smaller staysail. Just as this thought was crossing my mind a huge bang and flapping sails were heard - up on deck the pole which holds the genoa out had bent neatly in two!!

The rest of the night went ok though and we still made good speeds with just the main up. Today is trying to fabricate some sort of repair to the pole using strips of metal and rivets ... I'll let you know how it goes!