SWEET DREAM SELLS CRUISING SPINNAKER TO WIND RUNNER

The Bermuda Cruising Rally is a rally, not a race. But, any time two sail boats are within sight of each other, leisure sailing turns into racing. Wind Runner did not have a spinnaker in her sail inventory until Sweet Dream put her lightly used Quantum V5 Sail up for sale on www.ipphotos.com. In one shipment by UPS, Wind Runner will get all the gear she needs to double the square footage of sail carried on board, and provide the option of sailing when we might be wallowing, or worse, motoring.

The only issue will be getting the spinnaker halyard installed before departure on Sunday. Island Packet does a fine job of preparing the mast for the spinnaker halyard, but we still have to thread sixty five feet of line through a block, a fairlead and an opening at the top of mast, to an opening at the bottom of the mast. As long as the tracer, sentinel, monkey (whatever you call it) was properly arranged it will be a thirty minute job for two crew, one on deck, one sixty feet in the air. Otherwise . . . .