STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES! ! ! ! !

SHIP'S LOG:

I went do to ABISHAG to await the "Chuck" who was going to come by to help me solve the mystery. I also had to fix a tear in the Mainsail that revealed itself on the Labor Day Sail. The tear extended from the hole that existed in the sail that I had already tried to repair. The only sail repair tape I could find was a nylon rip-stop tape more appropriate for fixing a spinnaker that a Dacron mainsail. I stopped by Farrar Sails in New London and got a two foot strip of heavy Dacron sail repair tape and headed down to the boat.

As the launch is not running, I rowed out to the boat and set up to fix the mainsail tear. I unfurled the mainsail to expose the tear and lowered it on top of the Bimini ( sun shade over the cockpit). It took a few minutes to apply the tape to both sides of the tear (overkill) and then re-furled the sail. BANG!! I shot myself in the foot ! ! ! ! !!

The furler for the mainsail rolls the sail around a rod in a tub attached to the rear of the Mainmast. It is something akin to a window shade though set vertical rather than horizontal. Rather than being completely exposed(and to give the sail a more aerodynamic shape) the sail rolls(furls) itself around a rod in a tube. And in an effort to keep the good aerodynamic shape, the tub is as narrow as possible leaving not a lot of room inside. Somehow, when I was rolling the sail up, it folded over itself and kept on doing so. And I only realized what had happened when it jammed to a stop, not quite in but not really quite out. BANG! Right in the foot!

There it sits(?) immovable and I have got to figure out some way to get it functioning again. Fiddling with the lines that control the furling process only seems to have made it worse and I am really at a loss as to what to do! I called Kenny and he will join me Friday afternoon and hopefully the two of us will come up with a solution.

Chuck didn't show up and I have been unable to contact him. I hope there is nothing wrong.

Friday is also a day to ready the boat for (Hurricane/Tropical Storm/Gale) Hanna which is do sometime Saturday. I am not planning to move ABISHAG as everything holding her in place in brand spanking new. I will storm proof her and let her do her thing.

No further word on the refi except that another lender said "NO" as the condo had not been off the market long enough! ARRRRRGH!

MASTER'S PERSONAL LOG:

I am really feeling set up today. Nothing seems to be going right and whole bunches of little things are going wrong. It really seems as though every choice I am making goes bad and I can't seem to find a good path to go down. I am amazed that something so simple can get so confusing. I am sure that it will all work out, but when ?