I am here just to vent a bit! Two years ago I replaced the forestay upon inspection of the rig, it had a kink about two thirds of the way up and no corresponding damage to the foil, so someone replaced the foil and left the kink. Saturday it parted, I am not yet sure where the failure occurred as I have not yet lowered the furler and sail down to the deck. It really surprised me that when it failed the rig did not come down but was held by the sail. I quickly used my spinnaker halyard to help secure the rig at least as well as I could and then rolled in the sails. I couldn't generate enough tension on the halyard to actually draw the mast into the side stays so there remained mast motion forward and back as well as side to side, but it was good enough to nurse it back to the marina. Hopefully tomorrow I will lower the distressed assembly and see what happened. I am truly amazed that the sail held the mast up and when I was delicately maneuvering from the Gulf I watched intently for an indication that the jury rig was failing cause that big stick coming down would not be a pretty sight. Could have been phenomenally worse.
