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DIARY ENTRY
Mariquita doesn’t handle well in heavy conditions. She was designed for flat water sailing on the Clyde. I don’t tend to get sea sick but Mariquita has a weird movement especially in sloppy conditions. Her movement can
be unpredictable; one rogue wave can throw you off balance especially when you’re dealing with wind against tide in the overfalls off St Catherine’s. In 2008, while preparing for a tack one of our regatta crew working on
the main runner team slipped off the boat in sight of the lighthouse. Thankfully he was picked up by the rib and safely put aboard but it was salutary lesson of the dangers off the back of the Wight. M.O.
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