Boom

Do we stay or do we go?

Still very happy on the boat in Tanja marina but now considering going back to Gibraltar for the repair. The work on the boom has ground to a halt as the man from Rif Mountains was too busy. So work was not going forward.

Booms work together with the rigging and masts to hold your sails up and without these essential parts you cannot sail. Here is what happened to our main sail boom. When the boat was bought back in 2017 the middle sheet attachment on the boom was 'different'. A few Super Maramu's I saw also had this arrangement so it seemed fine. A factory original SM has 3 equal plates A 54 has a combined plate for the sheet But read on and please learn from my mistakes!