Great write up Bodge. Thank you for those fine words capturing today’s drama.
And drama it was!
I was on the second lap of the first race and I noticed my sails stopped working. Thanks to Phil for assisting in directing my boat back to the jetty.
After promptly removing the hatch to see what was going on with the winch servo, I was greeted with smelly smoke billowing from the hull. I didn’t think it was meant to do that so I immediately unplugged the battery.
A fire may have been prevented due to the watertight (airtight) hull starving it from oxygen. Phew!
Here is a photo of the damage.
Luckily, I have a spare DF65 winch servo so a quick clean up, deoderise and servo replacement and I’ll be back next DF65 Tuesday.
Congratulations to the podium places in today’s classes. Great sailing indeed.