{"id":752,"date":"2021-11-26T14:56:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T14:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jksail.it\/2021\/12\/06\/4th-day\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T14:56:54","slug":"4th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxurysailing.it\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"4th DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

25\/11 07:00 UTC the dinette of JK sail is invaded by silence and by 220 square meters of pitch black canvas.<\/span>
\nFrom 00:00 the ocean started roaring.<\/span>
\n20 – 25 knots of downwind make JK fly at 10 fixed knots with peaks at 13.<\/span>
\nThe record was set by Simone Stolfo, the youngest of the group and former instructor at the nautical club of Naples and secretary of the Cilento A Vela sailing club. <\/span>
\nThe moon that accompanied us in the last few nights hides behind the clouds.<\/span>
\nSea and wind remind us that we are in the kingdom of Neptune: the home of whales and giant squid and we can only be guests here.<\/span>
\nBut Jk is in 100% race trim and his crew does not give up one meter: we are at full mainsail pulled by a 220 m2 gennaker.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe first to not give up are the girls.<\/span>
\nJennifer and Cristiana two monoliths demonstrating that the weaker sex is a pure invention of men, they are weak.<\/span>
\nThe wind mounts and with it the sea and\u2026. BOOM a cannon shot in the night frees the black ghost.<\/span>
\nThe wall that has always kept the Gennaker in chain breaks out, allowing it to fly free.<\/span>
\nThe sound was very strong a total reset for the whole team’s nervous system.<\/span>
\nI raise my eyes to the sky and I am enchanted by such great beauty.<\/span>
\nThe gennaker, now free, flies like a kite at a height of almost 30 meters.<\/span>
\nHis is a hypnotic dance that kidnaps me and makes me regress to my 10 years.<\/span>
\n10 years, that age when a kite was enough to make me fly with the imagination and dream one day of plowing the ocean.<\/span>
\nBut tomorrow is today.<\/span>
\nAnd that is not a kite but “no fuck is trouble”, exclaims Michele De Giovanni rushed to the deck together with Lorenzo Castaldo and Luca Cafasso at that moment on standby.<\/span>
\nIn 30 seconds the whole JK team is ready on deck.<\/span>
\nThe procedures worked.<\/span>
\nThe lowered downwind with the two bowmen Cafasso and Stolfo in position, Castaldo in the cockpit, De Giovanni at the helm and mainsail and I recovering the now indomitable sheet of my kite.<\/span>
\nIn strong winds we have given ourselves the rule that there are no OFF groups, the only modes allowed are On and Stand By.<\/span>
\nIn Stand By it is allowed to sleep but only dressed and ready to handle any emergency in 30 seconds.<\/span>
\n30 seconds to enjoy a coffee, 30 seconds to understand if Vasco’s last song will be yet another success or will be forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nWhat is certain is that we will not forget this night.<\/span>
\nOnce out in the cockpit, a flashing light moves away from JK floating on the water.<\/span>
\nA man overboard?!?!? <\/span>
\nWith terror in our eyes we quickly count and understand that we are all aboard.<\/span>
\nThe gennaker sheet also wanted to free the stern ring.<\/span>
\nThis is too much. Stop! The regime changes. The party is over.<\/span>
\nAs if we were at the zoo from the Madagascar film all JK’s equipment wanted to get rid of.<\/span>
\nThis is not allowed!<\/span>
\nIn less than a minute we literally flew to the bow of the boat and grabbed the gennaker by forcefully pushing it into the dinette.<\/span>
\nHere is the invader, it is he, the Gennaker!<\/span>
\nNow hunched over the sail like two surgeons Simone Stolfo and Polo Manuel are putting the chains back on a gennaker that for a few minutes was back as a kite.<\/span>
\nTaken from the logbook of the commander of Jk sail Luca Davoli<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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