Today we completed our first full day at sea with good news and bad news. The good news was that from 2pm yesterday (first entry) to 2pm today we covered 195.6nm; New Morning has just been flying along on a broad reach in 17-22kts of true wind. The bad news is that shortly after the watch change at noon the clew pulled out of the main sail.
I was taking a shower when I heard a loud "bang", followed shortly by Dan knocking on the door of the aft head. We had 19kts of true wind at about 120 degrees at the time that the clew clew pulled out, not an excessive amount of wind. We immediately shortened the main to the first reef and continued on.
Now we have a lot of sail hanging below the boom which is primarily a cosmetic issue, but we'd like to tidy it up. We expect the winds to ease a bit within the next few days and when it does we'll heave to, roll up the extra sail and lace it up into the reef grommets.
