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My friends sailing around the Atlantic can't buy a break. They just turned back toward the Canary Islands. 
Jim writes :
It seems that after all the abuse it has taken since we left Nova Scotia, the rivets that hold the boom to the goose neck broke, and the boom was very close to dangling free
Murphy as a invisible crew is never fun.
here's their position report, below a link to the blog
Messages In This Thread
- My friends sailing around the Atlantic can't buy a break. They just turned back toward the Canary Islands.
- A good reason to have 'hammer rivets' in your ship stores
- Turning back?
- why not
- If the rivets are in the "front" of the boom...
- no drill and tap or spare rivets and rivet gun? Bummer.
- Real trouble doesn't come ...
