Y todo eso en el lapso de una hora. Primero fue el spinnaker que explotó literalmente luego de que el barco se clavara en una ola, y más tarde el Puma tal cual dice Ken Read en su e-mail "take off", es decir despegó y al caer hubieron varios cracks en refuerzos longitudinales de la zona de proa. Todo esto les costó unas 30 millas de distancia pero pudieron reparar vela y casco y ya están otra vez en situación normal, si se le puede llamar así a navegar con 40 nudos y olas de 7/8 metros.
Este es parte del e-mail deKen Read, skipper del Puma
Last night, he said, would have been great if you were a sailmaker or a boatbuilder looking for work.
”Not to sound like I am whingeing, but I think I will anyway,” he began. “Last night sucked. The proverbial ‘you-know-what’ hit the fan when we got about as vertical in a sailboat as you ever want to be going down a big dark wave that sort of snuck up on us. And when going straight down a big wave the inevitable bow crash is coming into the wave in front.
”Not only did the bow crash into the wave but the prod, the bow pulpit and about 15 feet up the asymmetric spinnaker we had up at the time. Bang. Spinnaker in many pieces and a long night for Justin Ferris.
”Then, soon after a watch change we found another beauty of a wave. Take off! This one was different than the other 10,872 smashes over the past 48 hours. This one caused several cracks in our longitudinal frames in the bow section.
”And for those laymen out there, these frames are the spine of the boat which don’t allow it to fold in half. And they also don't allow the bow to cave in when we hit waves. Kind of important piece to the puzzle.
”I figure it cost us only about 30 miles on the race track. So my whinge is over. Sorry you had to be a part of it. I feel better getting it off of my chest. The competitive side of all of us hates to lose miles.”
