Kevin Escoffier (I’m assuming) up the mast on Dongfeng….
Thursday, February 12th, 2015Kevin Escoffier (I’m assuming) up the mast on Dongfeng. Source.
The last gif, especially, is something I’ve been hoping we’d get to see for a while. A head-mounted GoPro can give you a sense of what the view is like up there, but it can’t really convey what it’s like to have the boat trying to shake you off. Hats off to Sam for bringing a drone and getting these great shots.
It’s not exactly clear to me what Kevin is doing up there. I’m assuming that all these clips (which were shown at the start and end of today’s Inside Track episode) are of the same session. It looks like they had the masthead zero hoisted as he reached the top, but then it appears that they rolled it up while he was up there. Maybe there was an issue with its halyard lock? I’m looking forward to seeing if we get more context when Dongfeng uploads the (hopefully longer) video package from which the clips were taken.
The writing that’s visible on the mast in the first gif had me curious, so I froze it to try to read what it says:
One World
One Strength
Rolene
Miss World
5 feb 2015
So it looks like a message left by Rolene Strauss when she was hoisted up during the Sanya stopover.
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