Wow, that was not exactly what I had planned. So there we were, and the wind was shifting to right on our tail. It was perfect spinnaker weather. So up went the spinnaker in the shelter of the mainsail. Then poof, the wind grabbed it, and took it to the roller-furled Genoa. Then as quick as a flash it wrapped the furled Genoa. So there we were 1000 miles from anywhere with our nice spinnaker and our Genoa wrapped around each other. We could not raise, lower, or unwrap either one. We tried motoring in circles, crying, blaming it on Shannon, but nothing worked. Then Cassidy, who was 'not' responsible, came up with the great idea of how to unwrap it. Half an hour later we were sailing under spinnaker grinning ear to ear, and nobody was hurt. It was a great experience for us, and we learned a lot about the spinnaker.
A catamaran buzzed through the fleet this morning doing 9.5 knots to every other boat's 6.5 knots. Rumor has it that they left Panama on the 11th. I told Shannon that we are going to have to chuck our food overboard, our clothes, and all the extra stuff in the bilges overboard if we wanted to go that fast. We are also going to need a taller mast with bigger sails. It was decided that we like the slower speeds!!!
Courage
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