As expected, it's been a breezy week at the SB20 World Championships in Cascais, Portugal leading to many running repairs on the race track. A French entry, Black Magic, skippered by Edward Russo, was one such example when the outer core of Black Magic's main halyard separated preventing the mainsail from being fully hoisted. Sending a man aloft to free it was the preferred solution but keeping him up there in the rolling Atlantic did not prove easy. It is not clear if the problem was resolved before the inevitable happened...
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