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1. When sailing at night, my standing orders are that a preventer will be rigged when the wind is abaft the beam.
2. A couple of months of ago while sailing around the Spanish Virgin Islands in 20 kts of wind, the helmsman performed a less that perfect jibe - i.e. the sail had been pull in half way when the boom went over. The resulting force was enough to rip the mainsail nearly in two. Granted that the sail was junk, but it brought home how hard an accidental jibe is on the equipment.
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