Saturday, December 22, 2012

Paint and practicing

We recently painted the A cat made a modification to the starboard daggerboard. I have just been working on boat handling and getting comfortable on the trapeze downwind. Now I am off to Virginia for Christmas then in January is the Invitational and Intergalactica.

Monday, December 3, 2012

Almost there

I have sailed the boat about five times, each time in more breeze. The last time i sailed was in 17 to 21 knots and I trapezed downwind in the flat water. I could match the speed and angle of a viper f16 once up to top speed.
Now the boat is back at the house to finish. We are fairing everyday and plan on spraying paint this coming weekend. The starboard board needs more toe in. I cut off the bottom 4 in of the rudder also. I have also added a lower position on the mast for the forestays so I can put more bend in it upwind. There is 5 weeks until the events in Islamorada.