

Muscat, Oman
Unfortunately we hit something about half way across the Indian ocean while sailing from Galle to Salalah. There was an awful grinding sound coming from the vicinity of the propellor which got worse and became a loud banging noise. We stopped mid ocean and snorkelled down to investigate. Nothing obvious could be seen. We were meant to be joining a convoy of yachts to traverse the Gulf of Aden (safety in numbers) but could not risk the journey up the Red sea where...