Our first day sail

Wow what a day. We stayed the night off Taverneir on anchor. We got up pretty early so we could sail towards Marathon.  When we went to put up the mainsail we didn't realize the rope wasn't attached to the mainsail until it was too late.  The clasp was almost all the way up the mast. Now what do we do???  Wes tried to climb up but could only get about halfway up. So the only way up is to use the boatsman and I was the lucky one that got to go up. It was going good until the winch that the rope was tied around snapped off and flew into the water and I started to drop.  Needless to say I wasn't able to get the rope but I did get down safe.  Then while we were trying all of this the port side engine overheated and wouldn't run.  Ryan (the previous owner) has helped us tremendously-thank goodness and he explained another way to get the mainsail up which worked and we were able to head towards Marathon.
When we stopped for the evening in a nice quiet bay off Long Key and we were getting ready to try to go up the mast again Wes noticed that the line had worked its way down low enough where we could hook it. Nice ending to the day.