CrewBlog: Gun Battles on the Bay

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Gun Battles on the Bay

(Publisher's Note - We just received several updates from our crew, and will publish them slightly out of sequence here. bc)

July 28, 2008

From the Mate:

The San Francisco Festival Of Sail is now history.

Four days of open ship and Gun Battles in 15 to 25 Kts of wind with boat speeds up to 11 Kts.

The last day we had a rig failure that snapped the Jib Boom. Crew response to the failure was excellent and we minimized damage to the ship as best we could. All aboard were safe.

We are now affecting repairs and hope to be back on schedule before the week is out.

(Thank you to Eliot Hudson for permission to use his gun battle photographs. bc)