rather dramatic sail replacement that was last year when we were competing against the polish boat dharma george and we were on our way across the baltic sea from finland to poland that's when the top most sail collapsed and it took the cadets some four hours to get a new one back up all that happened mid strong winds and torrential rain. don't touch that. again is the bosun's favorite student like all the other cadets he joined me as crew three months ago that remembers only too well the terror he felt when confronted with the prospect of climbing a fifty metre tall mainsail must. my heart sank and i shivered all over. we didn't go very far on the last occasion. and when we had that time to buy it was more to house sites in petersburg we looked up at the top of the mosque and wondered whether it was possible to reach it's old but now it's quite a routine thing for me to do. i remember the ship being caught up in a vicious storm near here during a race. sail in the jim britt. the guys had to be sent to the far end of the bow each with safety equipment. was so big. under the water several times.