Financial Crisis – Loss of wind instruments means back to basics.

Back to basics on Financial Crisis after loss of wind instruments
Short blog today, just after sunset yesterday all hell broke loose like
someone had pressed a giant button that said mayhem. The wind very
suddenly piped up from 20 to 30 knots, we were pinned down with too much
sail and took a while to restore order. Once reefed and taking a pasting
in the winds and waves we lost the wind readings on the NKE instruments. At
first I thought I could fix it, we had already lost our primary,
vertical wind instrument in the doldrums and were running on the
spare, sturdy horizontal so i hoped it was just a wiring problem, i spent
hours below rewiring the little boxes but to no avail, I did at least
manage to restore the use of the autopilot in compass mode. Daylight
revealed the likely cause of the problem, the wind instruments are simply
missing, gone, ripped off the top of the mast, this in 30-35 knots of wind,
I’m not sure how this stuff is supposed to cope with the southern ocean
legs.

Posted by: First Class Sailing