Best race start of the year right on the line on time and second over from the boat end of the line, and bam the port jib sheet snapped somewhere around the block on the job track. I was pinned and unable to tack due to the boat to starboard so we fixed the sheet, got up some speed, tacked and bam the starboard sheet broke. Admittedly the sheets looked a little worn but certainly nothing terrible, and we were sheeting hard in 12 to 15 knots with my big new jib, but wow what a shock!
I certainly do understand that things fail eventually and almost always at the worst times, but I am absolutely shocked that the other sheet failed within minutes of the first.
This is certainly a warning to look at the other lines, some of which look worse than these sheets did.
Dan
I certainly do understand that things fail eventually and almost always at the worst times, but I am absolutely shocked that the other sheet failed within minutes of the first.
This is certainly a warning to look at the other lines, some of which look worse than these sheets did.
Dan