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Think they just wanted to take advantage of a good wind but not get where they were going too fast.

Wish I could do that nautical stuff.
It's not a storm jib. It's something odd hoisted on the spinnaker halyard. That boat has a roller furling jib, which is rolled up. A storm jib would be hoisted up the forestay with the jib lanyard, and would be used in heavy winds to keep the stern of the boat into the wind - running downwind. If shit gets really bad, you drop a sea anchor off the font of the boat so the bow stays into the wind.

They could actually be at anchor and just using that sail to keep them downwind off the anchor in a current.

But they most likely are a short case into the day, and in no hurry.
 
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It's not a storm jib. It's something odd hoisted on the spinnaker halyard. That boat has a roller furling jib, which is rolled up. A storm jib would be hoisted up the forestay with the jib lanyard, and would be used in heavy winds to keep the stern of the boat into the wind - running downwind. If shit gets really bad, you drop a sea anchor off the font of the boat so the bow stays into the wind.

They could actually be at anchor and just using that sail to keep them downwind off the anchor in a current.

But they most likely are a short case into the day, and in no hurry.
Not at anchor.

Slowly traversing south to north enjoying a fine day.

It was a triangle shaped sail secured point to top of mast and the two lower corners tied off below, either on the roller jib or perhaps to cleats on the deck.

Real light cloth.

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Other boats with more sails out were pumping right along.
 
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Not at anchor.

Slowly traversing south to north enjoying a fine day.

It was a triangle shaped sail secured point to top of mast and the two lower corners tied off below, either on the roller jib or perhaps to cleats on the deck.

Real light cloth.

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Other boats with more sails out were pumping right along.
Just a spinnaker. Crappy photo but you can see the roller furled jib. No mainsail up. Nice slow day.

I met a guy in Tahiti that had sailed across the pacific from the west coast. We were hanging out on his boat in Tahiti, and he said he spent three days getting back from Morea to Tahiti when his diesel quit on him and there was no wind ( it's about 12 miles). I said weren't you pissed? He said "I didn't have to be anywhere".
 
Just a spinnaker. Crappy photo but you can see the roller furled jib. No mainsail up. Nice slow day.

I met a guy in Tahiti that had sailed across the pacific from the west coast. We were hanging out on his boat in Tahiti, and he said he spent three days getting back from Morea to Tahiti when his diesel quit on him and there was no wind ( it's about 12 miles). I said weren't you pissed? He said "I didn't have to be anywhere".
Watched a vid on YouTube about the last grain racers of the 20s and 30s.

Those big arks went from wind at the Capes that would threaten all sails to decking out their ships with as much sheet as they could to try and catch the slightest puff of air in the horse latitudes.

There was absolutely no talk of DEI on those boats. They were all equal, equally overworked.
 
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