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Title: Curmudgeon wounded in storms off of LA
Post by: B Sailing/Alan Bates on April 16, 2012, 03:46:44 PM
Terry Cantrell's Nelson Mereck 36 has been disabled off of Louisiana.  He was headed to the Isla Mujeres race Regatta del Sol, and race into a bad storm.  That is all I know.
This information came by way of a crew member supposed to do the race with him.
Title: Re: Curmudgeon wounded in storms off of LA
Post by: B Sailing/Alan Bates on April 17, 2012, 08:13:10 AM
From Terry:
Yep that was me. 48 hours of 20 plus knot on the nose. Fouled something on the rudder at 11:30 and went without steering till daylight, rigged the drougue and went backward to free, stayzsail halyard broke staysail goes in the water and fouled prop, got that free hours later, now having packing gland issues lot of water coming in, diaphram pump broke diaphram, so only hand bilge pump. I am La now repairing all but will not make the race now. SHIT