Thanks to all of you for your responses to my posting re: my vacation
disaster. Or actually near disaster as no one was injured or thrown
over board. I will send all the broken pieces to Bob as soon as the
weather allows me to spend time out on top of the boat on the trailer.
The thimble piece has already been removed from the boat and that shows
that all the wire sheared at the area where it entered the thimble. I
suspect that when one wire sheared, and started to unwind, all the rest
were forced to do the same. It has been depressing to leave beautiful
sunny FL and have a week of wet, dreary, cold weather, along with the
rush of work, and Christmas prep. I doubt that wire cutters would have
done me any good, first of all, they would not have been handy and
second, as I really needed the remaining stays to help keep the mast
and boom from being totally lost. Yes, this is a new boat, been in the
water probably 10 times all total. Also, since I read all that you
guys post, I have been very conscious not to kink the stays when
stowing on the trailer. The bright side of this cloud is that it was
the last sail of the season anyway.
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Time for a cool change!
Sandra(Seawitch #617)
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