A bit of excitement today, starting at 6am when a loud irregular banging noise started somewhere in the vicinity of the boom or the mastSailors are always on high alert for sounds that aren't normal on their boats, and the bonking sound awoke Allan from his sleep just as I had grabbed the flashlight to search out the source.

He clambered around in the dim light of morning trying to figure it out, and ultimately surmised it might be the mandrel, the thing the sail rolls around when furled in the boom, and we're still investigating that as a possibility.