2015 Transat Jacques Vabre - O Canada, are heading to Vigo, Spain
by Transat Jacques Vabre on 31 Oct 2015
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Since yesterday Eric Holden and Morgen Watson have been struggling with a damaged mast track on O Canada. They are heading to Vigo, Spain where they hope to fix the problem. They are in good spirits, reporting this morning.
Eric Holden, CAN, O Canada, IMOCA: 'We're still heading towards Vigo, we decided to tack out and get around the TSS and then tack back shortly to head to Vigo. We're missing about one foot of mast track at the second reef point so we had to pull the mast out and the sail up harder than that on the main sail. I don't really know how it broke but when we went to reef the headboard kind of jammed in the broken track.
Right now it's about 35-38kts upwind from the south so it's not very pleasant.
I'd say [be stopped for] a minimum of 24 hours. Everything else is fine, we're disappointed and the conditions are not very great, it's slow progress and we're not making good speed to Vigo because we're going upwind and there's big waves but the boat otherwise is fine and Morgen and I are fine as well.
We'll probably arrive there tomorrow morning, there's still 100 miles and its all upwind. So a middle of night kind of thing.'
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