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Up by 4:30 and sailing by 5:30, Mom needed two cups of coffee before casting off. The fleet  covered 59 nm today arriving at Wentworth by the Sea Marina by 3:00 PM. Another day of motor sailing with the wind directly on us. A fairly uneventful sail, a few harbor seals, until we arrived at Portsmouth. Solemates headed directly into the wind and Sandra started to pull in on the inhaul…the main would not roll into the mast. I went to the mast to see what the problem was…where the sail is tacked to the furler, the bolt had come out and jammed against the mast. As Sandra headed into the wind, avoiding the many lobster traps, I managed to let the main down and tied it to the boom. Did I mention it was raining during this exercise…The picture at the slip show the sail on the boom.

Tommorrow, I will try to fix this problem with lock-tight.. The fleet plans to stay in port Thursday as the storm passes.