Anti-Klabautermann measures effective immediately!

Would anyone really believe that a "rumbling" and "noise making" creature is helping the sailors, when at the same time we have seen on multiple Pacific Cups on Cirrus what damage this guy can do? No Valerie, I believe you accessed the "politically correct" version of Wikipedia, valid only in California :->. Maybe our German readers can find out more about Klabautermann?

However, we do take advice from our readers seriously, and in particular I found that Valerie's suggestion of carving a face into the mast was a really good one. If it has helped in the past, why not now and in the future? So I took hammer, chisel and drill and began to work on the mast. You won't believe what happened: the skipper stopped me in my doing after only a few holes drilled into the mast! I had to resort to Plan B and painted a face on the mast, using our good-for-everything-red-tape.
I am attaching a picture; Klabautermann is the LEFT face, the right one is mine.
But taking advice from the readers is clearly taking advantage of outside help, and this post must be kept absolutely secret and hidden from the race committee!

Mahalo for the tip, and Aloha,
Ulli