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Trisail kind of
In Response To: Like a trisail, Piere? 
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() Yes, but with the main.
If the boom isn't too damaged it can be lashed where it is and the trisail arrangement will bypass the boom. I've crossed the Atlantic four times and a lot of this was repairing broken things on the boat... it's part of the fun.
Pierre
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- 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?
- Like a trisail, Piere?
- Trisail kind of
- Like a trisail, Piere?
- 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 ...
