All Change on Rán

This picture shows the number of people which is needed to hoist a spinnaker. As many sailors as possible on the winches on deck to hoist a spinnaker. We are “peeling” – this means we are hoisting one sail in front of another sail, which in turn is taking down afterwards. The aim is to make sure there is always one sail up catching the air, and most importantly that it is the right sail up for the current wind condition. In this case we had one spinnaker of close 500m2 but since the wind decrease we “peeled” to a lighter/smaller spinnaker that will better capture the lighter wind.

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