Post-Return Survey
Now that Resolute is back in Camden, ME, I've had a chance to offload her "offshore" gear (and provisions, like food) and to do a detailed survey of her condition. Overall, it's good news. The only appreciable damage is to the mainsail and to the deck studs to which the shrouds attach. Mainsail I knew offshore that the webbing attaching the sail to several of the Antal mast slides had broken—so the slides, while still perfectly comfortable in the mast track—were no longer keeping their portion of the luff of the sail attached. There are a few other bits of the sail that need repair (telltales are gone, for example), but I'm optimistic that the sail can be repaired to "as new" condition. The body of the sail (all of the…