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--- projects:sailing:blog:7_moreton_bay [2024/01/21 03:39] – tjhowse
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 Before too long Michelle lost her hat again. Fortunately we'd just had another encounter with the sandbar so I was able to wade over and pick it up. Michelle also hopped off the boat. Losing the weight of two adults was enough to float the boat again and start it merilly sailing itself back towards the channel with Alex and Sam onboard. There was some focussed panic as I splashed back to the boat. Luckily it was slowed by Michelle being dragged along behind. We got back onboard and I steered us back around onto the sandbar for a breather and to answer the call of nature.
-During these events I became aware of a buzz in the air. I initially thought it was the wind through our rigging, but soon the kids were shouting "Look! A drone! A drone!". I was focussed on [[https://youtu.be/EA2BNB_4m3g?t=391|another task]] at the time. After that concluded I gave the quadcopter a wave and we launched back towards the channel. I'm not sure who sent the drone out, but I would *dearly* love a copy of that footage. I'm sure it's hilarious. It would make a lot of sense for the coast guard/VMR to use drones to check on things close to shore before launching to help out.
+During these events I became aware of a buzz in the air. I initially thought it was the wind through our rigging, but soon the kids were shouting "Look! A drone! A drone!". I was engaged in [[https://youtu.be/EA2BNB_4m3g?t=391|another task]] at the time. After that concluded I gave the quadcopter a wave and we launched back towards the channel. I'm not sure who sent the drone out, but I would *dearly* love a copy of that footage. I'm sure it's hilarious. It would make a lot of sense for the coast guard/VMR to use drones to check on things close to shore before launching to help out.
 It was around this point we noticed our mainsail had a problem. It has a boltrope sewn into the bottom edge (foot), and this is supposed to tuck into a slot in the boom. About half the foot of the mainsail had pulled out of this slot and the trailing corner (clew) was flapping in the breeze, only held on by the rope that pulls the foot of the mainsail tight (the outhaul). It seems there had been enough force on the sail at one point, probably during a gybe, to pop it out. I suspect this was caused by inexpert rigging. I had re-done the outhaul at some point to make it tighter, but neglected to loop it around the boom to tie the clew securely down to the boom. We'd been on the water for a couple hours by this point so we decided to call it a day.