You have to check out this Video…I thought we were ballsy to go out in the crazy weather during FrostBite. Check out the OLSON 30, its Green w/ a Yellow Spin, well , what is leftover of the spinnaker…These guys put up the Chute…They broached, but they did put up the chute…Excerpt Greg Larson’s Email to the Olson Mail Group…

” Over the weekend we went out in the Possession Point race in Puget Sound. Winds where around 20-25 some gust over 30. This provided an exciting ride down wind. All went well for a while. Top speed on the knot meter was 16.7. Well the ride eventually came to an end, with a broach. The chute trimmer lost his balance ended up laying on the sheet face down in the water. Boat didn’t come up until someone tripped the halyard half way. When we started to come up one crew up by the mast grabbed the spin sheet and try to pull in the chute, with no real lucky, because the guy was still in the hands of the trimmer. The guy was finally blown which was a mistake. This cause the sheet to be ripped out foredeck guys hands. Now we where there with the chute looking like a big flag flying out of the top of the mast…

…Now we tried to sail downwind to get under spinnaker so it could be retrieved. Only problem was we couldn’t bare away. The main kept bring us backup into the wind. After what seemed like ten minutes we eventually got going down wind and retrieved the kite. Tried everything to get the boat going down wind eventually track and bore off hard and we were able to head down wind.”

The Skipper