Yesterday was definitely a very unlucky day for Cape Arrow and her crew: we were sailing in 25 knots of wind, with a true wind angle of 110° at around 500 miles from Antigua when we accidentally hit a floating object with the rudder blade, presumably a whale...
We were all impressed about the blow that we felt at the steering wheel and understood the rudder blade had been damaged; fortunately we found that no other problems occurred to the yacht.
The situation is completely under control and we are all in good spirit. The yacht is sailing with very little steering ability but we have created a parachute anchor by using a spare gennaker to stable our course and it seems to work. We are currently keeping our route under staysail and are sailing at about 3kts with a heading of 310-320 degrees.
Pegaso boys and girls are working hard to support us and they’ve found a proper tugboat which is supposed to arrive in the next 36 hours. It will tow Cape Arrow to an Antigua yard where will we be able to repair the damage and carry on with our charter season!
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