First Sail

I think my dad likes his new ride!

Today was our first sail! She goes quite well. We were able to get nine knots out of her on a broad reach. The mast tuning is coming along well although I believe that for the breeze we were in today we would prefer more cap shroud tension and a quarter or half inch more head stay. Today we ran into a main that was far to flat and a head stay that was sagging too much. My hunch is that with more cap shroud tension we would get the head stay sag out with using so much back stay which was bending the mast too much and flattening out the main. To do this the rigger said we would need to ease off on the D2s and we were unable with the time to get out a harness. So as we speak the rig is getting closer but not quite where we want her.

If you have been looking closely you may have noticed a list to port. This we have figured is just because of tankage that is not balanced. There is a large port side fuel tank which we did not know if it was full or not. Turns out its the only tank on the boat that is full and it has 94 gallons of fuel in it. That's around 667 lbs or more at 7.1lbs per gallon. After filling the starboard water tank the boat flattened out nicely.