“I hit something last night - I don’t know what it was, maybe a fish or squid, I don’t know but it wasn’t huge, she said Sunday morning. “It went on the leeward rudder [and got stuck there] so I ended up doing a 360 to get that off. I gybed the boat so the rudder just lifted out of the ter and it came off and drifted away. A day earlier Ellen had a close encounter with a whale. “I saw a whale very, very close to the boat and it was just in front of us, and sailed right over it. It went underneath our starboard float and as it went underneath us it blew its air tanks out and its nose came out of the water, and its back came out and I didn’t see its tail but it must have been about 30 feet long. Link to TeamEllen