Almost a mast as it was over-rotated 180 degrees when we noticed it(going upwind) 2 on the wire, 3 people total. When I dumped the main it bent back the wrong way and it has spreaders! Scary !
Jake Kohl was the 3rd man on the boat so he rigged(hes an engineer) a mast rotation limiter from my barber haulers, and we somewhat babied it around the course, staying off the wire.
Then a trapeze line broke with Jake Kohl on it, he had to swim a bit.
Then as we were about to round the "c" mark we noticed the jib block had lost a dammit ring and the pin. We had to temporarily tie it off until we tacked again.
Then one ear of the shackle broke clean off leaving the pin precariously hanging on to the main blocks under load going upwind. Jake Kohl again tied it off and 2 seconds later the pin let go. almost like in the movies.

Okay, I should have checked all of this before hand, but most of it was stressed beyond belief on Saturday in 20-30 and 5 ft seas, maybe bigger. I am glad we took on another crew who happened to be an engineer.
THANKS JAKE !!!!!!!

David Mosley
www.seacats.org