Trip dates:
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Trip length:
1 day
Type of watercraft:
Sail
Beating into a 15+ knot breeze with a reef in my main and my genoa furled 10%, there was a sharp crack of something breaking. I took a quick look, saw nothing, released the genoa sheet, and tacked. The stays and shrouds were intact, but after a minute of looking around, I discovered that the reefing line/spinaker tack line double clutch had ripped out of the deck. Spent the next several days working on through bolting the clutch, cutting through headliner and getting nuts and bolts into unreachable places.