All the gear but no idea
It’s been a busy weekend of boatwork…
Two 9-5 days of fiddling with bits and pieces while John and I waited for wind.
Saturday didn’t cooperate til late afternoon, when we blasted off for a bit of upwind sailing. Unfortunately the breeze died off when we turned around, and we had to sail home in absolutely no wind. Not easy for John who hadn’t yet inflated his wing tramps.
Sunday looked more promising. A nice 10-20 knot gusty westerly was blowing. It was the perfect opportunity for the new owner Luca to take the boat out for a test flight. A bit over an hour later I had the boat back, and John was almost ready to hit the water again.
We flew around for a bit, and started to tune upwind… but that didn’t last long. John’s handiwork failed and his rig came down within the first couple of hundred metres.
Not such a good start to the day.
Anyway, I continued flying around for another couple of hours, joined by Luka (not the same one as earlier) for a bit while he tested out yet more foil setup configurations (unfortunately a quicker one by the looks). We were to join in the club race at Woollahra, but my rudder box cracked in one of the big puffs and I thought it best to take it in before it got worse… that and I was buggered after almost 3 hours of cold, wet and windy sailing.
So more boatwork to finish up the afternoon… and more again for the week.
Never seems to end.
