FarrOut's wobbly masthead tricolour finally shook itself off of the top of the mast. We couldn't sail the boat with it like that so we had to foresake racing this sunday and sort it out.
Clearly a mast climb was not going to be the best way to sort it out, plus none of us feel light enough to go up there. As sunday morning was high water springs we were able to get alongside the new WSC crane and drop the rig. This transpired into a drop on sunday and a raising on monday morning which gave us more time to do the bits needed and tune the rig.
All back up and just as well we dropped it as a bolt was also missing from our expensive Raymarine wind instrument. Unfortunately I forgot to measure the forestay to make sure we had the exact length required. We'll have to see how she goes...
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