Daniela saw the rubber plug from the profurl roller furler laying on the trampoline. WTF...we saved it quickly and saw that the 10 cm shaft that is holding the forestay and the furler together has almost
completely slid out. Its only holding by the last 5mm . If it goes out we will not getting back in with such heavy seas, maybe loose the mast.
We reefed the masinsail and unfurled the bigger genaker to make this forestay loose. After 3 hours of banging and cursing, soaking wet, we got it back in.
I was exhausted because this shaft was inside crooked and could only fit back in straight. No problem in a marina , but here it was a major job.
Its a stupid system , so we wanted to RTFM read the effing manual. We haven't looked at that part of Yelo yet: the library. It was totally soaked from yet another leak we have.
The manual was ok and it said : for extended cruising you should use stainless steel plugs. Well thank you Carib Marine in Martinique, nobody told us this. Looking at it , it makes sense that these massive
forces cannot be held in place with plastic.
The night had 22-27 knots and now in the morning its calming down to 18-22. tired Rolfo