Genaker adventures

After a nice night gooze winged I wished to increase speed this morning.
Hoisted a heavy gennaker in 21 knots of breeze. As soon as the sail went
up it was all hands on deck. Single handed that means, handsteering
and sheet in the other hand, no hand available to work on the tackline
or anything else. This was soon to go wrong so I threw the halyard
overboard to bear away and take down the sail. Then we almost broached,
the sail collapsed, filled again and went around the forestay. I
immediately released the tack and blew the halyard and could pull the
sail down before it was jammed. Pfff. Now goozed winged again. Double
handed boats really have an advantage in these conditions compared to
single handed boats. The advantage of sailing gooze winged is that Home
of Jazz can sail much deeper compared to boats without a spinnaker pole
who will have to gybe to avoid being caught by the high. We might just
make it if we can stay a bit north of the rumbline.