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Of course, there were days when you wished you could just call someone to take care of the problem for you.  But every cruiser soon learns to tackle whatever comes up.  And if you can't fix it, the guy in the next boat probably can and will do anything to help.  Sailing south in the Sea of Cortez, coming into a beautiful anchorage off a little village, our mainsail jammed in the "up" position.  Fortunately, there wasn't much wind or we wouldn't have been able to drop anchor.  I went up the mast five times in two days (that's me waving) to break it loose and fix the damage to the mast track.  But I jerked too hard to break it loose and tore the sail.  Patti to the rescue!  She had taken sail repair training before we left and bought an industrial-strength sewing machine to bring along.  So we drug the sewing machine (75 pounds of it) out on deck where she worked all day and repaired the damage.  Then followed a drawn-out drama to get new parts for the mast track from the US.  The US company was agreeable but Mexico requires TONS of paperwork to ship things into the country.  We got lots of help from the locals and it all worked out.