05-07-2007, 05:07 AM
Well this past weekend was the big graduation party for my wife and all her nursing school friends. It was a good thing there was a bunch of nurses around because i got beat up all weekend. :-)
I officially christened the boat and got a great little video snippet of it I'll post later.
It was really windy all weekend and I had the sails reffed most of the time for taking passengers along for a ride. I was able to get it out by my self early one morning to she what she could do. It was scary but also a blast. I had the rail in the water most of the time and at one point she started going over way to far, I dumped the main and she didnt come down at all. I think te wind got a hold of the flat bottom and forsail and wasnt going to let go. I was holding my breath while getting to point into the wind. I could see at one point that the water was half covering the portholes. finally she leveled out. that was a close one but at least I got a fell for the tolerances.
I had troble with the mainsail all weekend, getting the sail up and down kept getting hung up. I was dissapointed in all that expensive sail track I bought. I had to climb the mast 3 times to get the main down. ( guess i should have left the rat lines on it. :-) ) I ran a small line up through the track cars for a downhaul and it worked great for the rest of the weekend but getting the sail up was still a hassle the whole time. I'll have to mess around with it to get it to work better.
All in all a very fun weekend. she sails great but still a little sluggish compared to my old Hunter 23, but a lot prettier. :-)
I officially christened the boat and got a great little video snippet of it I'll post later.
It was really windy all weekend and I had the sails reffed most of the time for taking passengers along for a ride. I was able to get it out by my self early one morning to she what she could do. It was scary but also a blast. I had the rail in the water most of the time and at one point she started going over way to far, I dumped the main and she didnt come down at all. I think te wind got a hold of the flat bottom and forsail and wasnt going to let go. I was holding my breath while getting to point into the wind. I could see at one point that the water was half covering the portholes. finally she leveled out. that was a close one but at least I got a fell for the tolerances.
I had troble with the mainsail all weekend, getting the sail up and down kept getting hung up. I was dissapointed in all that expensive sail track I bought. I had to climb the mast 3 times to get the main down. ( guess i should have left the rat lines on it. :-) ) I ran a small line up through the track cars for a downhaul and it worked great for the rest of the weekend but getting the sail up was still a hassle the whole time. I'll have to mess around with it to get it to work better.
All in all a very fun weekend. she sails great but still a little sluggish compared to my old Hunter 23, but a lot prettier. :-)
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