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Warrior Lends PRB a Helping Hand

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Warrior Lends PRB a Helping Hand
www.Sail-Search.com: International Man of Mystery, Michael van Wyk, is having a really tough life lolling in Cape Town amongst the rich and famous. But, someone has to do it. As Michael says: "For the past few days we have had two boats, PRB and Estrella Damm as our neighbours at Cape Grace. For those of you following the Double Handed Barcelona World Race PRB lost about 3m off the top of her mast and Estrella Damm had severe rudder problems, both are out of the race. This morning I was approached by PRB asking if they could use Warrior to unstep their mast to get the boat ready for shipping back to France. Being the ABYC pleb that I am I had no idea what this would entail so I checked with the powers that be and was given the go ahead. With Estrella Damm on one side and Warrior on the other side we took the spinnaker halyards from each boat and clipped them onto a makeshift strop and by using the grinders lifted the mast and then gently lowered it onto the brackets that had been made for the boat. Although the mast only weighed 350kg it was an amazing feat and the whole episode took about an hour. As I have been told you never know everything in this industry." Full Story »

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