Finally, a good headsail...

When I sailed to Union Island before my visit home, I blew out the headsail (jib/genoa) in a squall that caught me on the windward side of Grenada, the photos above show where it started shredding. Since this sail was already on it's last leg, I had already had a foot and a half cut off the leech (backside of the sail) and had some reinforcement sewn on (which worked great obviously), I had been looking into buying a new one online out of Hong Kong. Anyway, that trip was to pick up a dinghy in Union. If you hadn't followed before I was having all kind of trouble with dinghies and finally found a decent one through a friend in Union. So now I have two extra dinghies on board. Pretty ridiculous. So that leads me to now where I have been able to buy a headsail from Fabian that is in really good shape and should last a while and by selling the two dinghies I'm actually coming out ahead, I can't believe it. So I spent the afternoon through sunset pulling down the old sail and rigging the new one. I guess I should be happy there is no wind again today, the anchorage is flat calm (which is unusual in Prickly) and I didn't have to wrestle with a huge sail flailing around. One less headache taken care of.