Need a new suit
Marsali Taylor sails an Offshore 8M, Karima S. She’s a dinghy instructor and author of The Shetland Sailing Mysteries starring liveaboard sleuth, Cass Lynch.
My Karima needed new sails. The current ones had been fine when I’d bought her, over ten years ago, but now the genoa had all the aerodynamic curve of a flattened out sugar bag, and had stretched so far it touched the spreaders.
The only reason the main had any shape at blew over, so that I needed a reef in anything over 15 knots of wind, and I was lucky to tack in less than 110°. Something had to be done; and not scarily fragile hi-tech grey laminate either. was going to have white wings.
