By morning on January 3, the pumps had the water level sufficiently under control for us to take two hours’ rest in rotation . But we still had a tremendous leak somewhere below the waterline and, on checking, I found that nearly all the boat’s  main rib frames were smashed down to the keel. In fact, there was nothing holding up a whole section of the starboard hull except a few cupboard partitions.
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