Issuma: crack...disaster averted

On a  beautiful day on the Labrador Sea a loud crack was heard: one wire stay snapped, a second - Dynex synthetic rope rigging - stretched.  The mainmast popped out of its step on the deck.  Jury rigging brought them to safe harbor 60 miles away. Damage above, details HERE in the July 26, 2010 post.

Masters sailing at the Opera House

The Sydney Opera House, that is where an Agence France press photographer caught the similarity between the sails and the scoops of the famous icon of Sydney (the other being the steel arch bridge that is a near twin of the Hell Gate RR bridge in New York).