15º 14.324n 117º 56.575w
Mon Apr 22 2019
1025
ship’s time (1725 UTC) - or ZULU to you old farts.
The
main halyard is a 2:1 purchase, with an eye splice pinned at the mast head and
a block that attaches to the main sail head board with a big, captured,
threaded shackle pin with a hole in the grip. We’ve never siezed this
particular pin because it has a lot of built in thread drag, and it’s never
EVER loosened up on us. Hah.
Last
night trusty crewman Thad observed the main halyard to be floating in space.
Lucky for all of us he snagged it and secured it to a cleat, then alerted
Captain Mark to the issue this morning.
Jeez.
Guess
it’ll get reinstalled today WITH seizing wire and that will hopefully be the
end of that.
Our
pal Jamie Gifford warned us that on long passages odd and perhaps bizarre
things would break simply due to the duration of the motion, vibration, and
constant cyclic loading. Jamie is obviously smarter than the average bear.
Thad
brought his downloaded Spotify play lists, so no matter what breaks, at least
we’ve got killer tunes to get us through. Sure hope the stereo hangs in there.
. .
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