Sydney Hobart - Look after your offshore main or carry a spare?



12:22 AM Thu 30 Dec 2010 GMT
'Torn mainsail' Click Here to view large photo
628 miles to Hobart with an average of two frontal systems. It?s a testing voyage south to latitude 41 for boat crew and sails. In the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Notice of Race, there is a change to standard offshore racing regulations which allows boats to carry spare mainsail as a bona fide replacement for a mainsail damaged during the race. Yet one of the most common reasons for retirement, often on the first night of the race, is a torn mainsail. While many boats do carry a spare mainsail there are plenty of serious sailors who elect not too. ...


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by Rob Kothe





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