While the yacht was planing before the breeze out of control, two shifting wrenches were secured to the remains of the tiller straps and the tiller was made fast to these.

Gradually SANDRA was brought back on her course, but by this time the constant flogging of the storm staysail had caused both forestay hanks to part and the jib sheets to come adrift at the tack of the sail.

As a piper played and the crowd looked on, the cradle holding this perfect little craft, eased down the slipway gently returning the Huon Pine planks to the salty waters of the Bay