Catchy title to a blog post.
The short story, we lost the back mast.
The long story. With a very strong following wind and an out
going tide we approached the Crescent Beach bridge. The bridge tender told us
to “keep it coming he would have the bridge open for us but one of the spans is
down for repair and only the west span would be opened”. Well, he didn’t open
it in time and I didn’t judge our speed properly and the current set us to the
right at the last minute since I had slowed us down because the bridge opened late. The result was a near miss for the front mast but I caught a wire of
the aft mast on the bridge and it tore the mast apart. Needless to say I was
not happy. I pulled the mast back to gether and the next day. I “free hand”
climbed the mast and rigged ropes to stabilize it for the rest of the trip up
north.
Sorry to here this. I've had very little experience with currents ( they can bee very tricky )
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Then again you could turn the SG inti a sloop.