Ahoy mateys!
Today was officially a Good DayTM. We finally got the boat out on the water, in a lovely light breeze, put the sails up and sailed. (The wind was too light to resolve my mast rake issue mentioned in the previous post, so the jury is still out on that one.) As you can see in the pictures, it was a lovely blue-sky day, about 20°C. Perfect weather for our first shakedown cruise. All told we were out on the water for just over three hours.
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Waiting at the dock
Note that our hull number is 393
Leigh says I look nautical, but I think I simply look clueless.
Playing lookout
Main and jib sail while underway
Ain't she pretty?
Zilla's Other Half says:
September 21st, 2009 at 9:18 am
Congratulations! I’m so glad you had a great day!
Grondzilla says:
September 21st, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Excellent…so did you get to do some tacking and coming about and yo-ho-ho-ing?
Mister Angry says:
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:53 am
Tacking and coming about – lots
Yo-ho-ho-ing – some
Bottles of rum consumed – sadly, none.