TELEFONICA BLUE EMAIL: 'Hammers, chisels , hacksaws, everything was out'

Sunday 23, November 2008 12:00 GMT

Telefonica Blue - Bouwe Bekking - (Skipper)

We were going so nicely, and all of a sudden a BIG BANG changed everything. We snapped of one of our daggerboards ( side boards) which prevent the boat sliding sideward’s. Completely destroyed it and had to stop the boat for 45 minutes, even worse the little speed we did was on the wrong tack, sailing away from India. Hammers, chisels , hacksaws, everything was out, in the end lowered Pepe (Ribes) in the water, to get rid of all the bits and pieces, so that we could lift the board up again. We are now underway again, but way slower as we liked.