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We made an early departure from Lunenburg 7:00am since we had a pretty long passage ahead of us of about 45 miles and wanted to be back home in time to hook up with Kaitlin and our three grand daughters who were joining us to watch the fireworks from the boat. The day was sunny with a light breeze and I slowly motored out while Joyce made a yummy breakfast. By 8:30 we had shut down the engine and were under main & jib with a nice sw breeze of 12-14 knots and were making our way back home at about 6.2 over ground. By 11:20am winds were up to about 18 and we were making great time until...... bang!!!! We lost "Gypsy" our 11' rib we were towing. Definitely an owner error I "Scott" mistakenly tied off the tow line to the ss eye that is glued to the front tube (not realizing there was another ss u through bolted into the fiberglass bow. Needless to say it was pretty crazy rounding up with some wind and under full sail trying to grab Gypsy with nothing really to grab hold of. Eventually after two tries decided to fired up the engine and powered into the breeze and managed to get a line rigged and were back on our way:) The wind held up nicely and we continued under full sail until we hit Sambro channel and furled the jib as a precaution since it is a bit tricky to navigate. We also decided to furl the main since we had about 22 knots of wind and were still getting our feet wet (navigationaly). We got through the channel without incident and had a nice breeze so we attempted to unfurl the main but it became jammed so back in it went and we returned home with just the genoa flying in about 25 knots on the stern quarter nice. ( I have since learned that the furling main is pretty easy to unjam and a jam is normally due to either a poor furl or a bagged main and on this occasion we had both) We were back on our mooring by 5:30pm just in time to grab a quick bite and head back out in the boat for the fireworks.
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