There's a crack twisting along the yard, starting aft at the port sling and ending fore at the starboard. Nothing irreparable, nothing that can't be easily patched and braced by a carpenter with the know-how, but not exactly negligible, either.
"I mean - it's not going to break right this second or anything. But if I'm detaching the sail on my own, I have to work from one side to the other, and - well, I don't want to end up with all the weight of the sail hanging off one end for any length of time, you know?"
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"Look," he says simply.
There's a crack twisting along the yard, starting aft at the port sling and ending fore at the starboard. Nothing irreparable, nothing that can't be easily patched and braced by a carpenter with the know-how, but not exactly negligible, either.
"I mean - it's not going to break right this second or anything. But if I'm detaching the sail on my own, I have to work from one side to the other, and - well, I don't want to end up with all the weight of the sail hanging off one end for any length of time, you know?"