In Her Mooring

Although they originally told me I would have to wait until the end of June, I paid the membership yesterday and they told me to go ahead and put her in the mooring.

Here she is at last!

The Launch!

The launch went well!

We got down to the ramp under threat of rain but it looked like it would miss us so we went ahead and launched.

The wind was blowing from the west but, as you will towards the end of the video, they swung to the SE and blew strong! We had a good test of the rigging in that I did not reduce sail and we hit 4 knots to windward, pretty good for a tubby catboat. Going with the wind, we hit just over 6 knots!



here is a direct link to the same video.

http://s74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/P....nt=100_7798.flv

Tat was Terri threatening to toss the camera overboard if I overturned the boat! :

There were a couple minor adjustments I will have to make like a downhaul for the boom but nothing major. The boat did not leak and sailed better into the wind than I expected, giving me a light pull to windward on the tiller, which is what you want. All in all a great design from a great designer!

I will get her out again next week after the additional mast hoop arrives and I put the downhaul in!

A special thanks to my dad and Terri. They both contributed greatly to the boat and I appreciate all they did to help!

Sail Test #2

Rigged the mast again today for a correct test for the sail. This means that the mast hoops are on (I'll need one more), the sailed is tied on to the boom and the gaff poles and the uphaul lines are running through the deck blocks (I installed them backwards) and teh lines are tied on to the belaying pins.



Basically, with a few minor modifications and additions, the boat should be ready to take its 1st sail on Monday!

I still have a half dozen things to do like install the cleats for the mooring lines, attach a line to the centerboard to be able to pull it up, install the tiller handle to the rudder and a couple other minor tasks.

Sail Rig Test

Did a test of the mast, gaff and boom. The sail was not properly rigged, I just wanted to make sure that everything hoisted properly and it did. She will be easy to recognize on the water!