Heya all! Made it out to lake mich this weekend and had a blast.
i learned some things about the boat too, and one thing in particular i got questions about
so there's day one had some trouble getting out there but i made it work. any tighter to the wind and i was having serious problems. it was very frustrating to say the least. but we made it work and went swimming hove to and everyone had a good time. coming back though?
i wouldn't believe it either. (and yes i know a screw is missing, my drill battery died just as i was finishing). but seriously... 7.1 kn. we saw 12 kn of wind. heeled over enough to make the gf panic. but i put her on the tiller and gave her something to keep her mind busy while working the sheets. all in all fantastic. water right up to the rub rail. might have warranted reefing but i felt safe enough.
so... question one. we tried to come into harbor, so going with the wind from a port close hauled to port beam and the boat went... haywire. i dunno. she ended up letting go of the tiller and the boat settled out, turnnig hard into the wind. i'm still unsure how it went wrong. thankfully lots of room to make whatever mistake it was but it is frustrating to try to reconcile what the heck happened. we were easily pulling 6+ kn at the time and heeled pretty hard... i thought going wit hthe wind would relax us, not damn near throw people over. ideas?
anyway, we went out again the next day with my dad and gf and we had an even better time. wind coming out of the north west so we put it on a close hauled and sailed out a ways, hove to and went swimming again. sailing it back was easy as pie too. lot less wind ...
but still happy with what we did with it.
on the second trip out we're staring at the mainsail getting frustrated with its shape and i realize... the topping lift is preventing the boom from coming down. DOH! i forgot every time to take it off. but... when i do, the damn boom lays right down in the cock pit and is a disaster zone. lol. so i think i'm gonna rig up a pulley on the end of the lift and use an open cleat on the boom to make a topping lift doodad per some pics i saw. anyways. we let that thing out and managed to wrangle it while getting the sail up and i was SOOOO much happier about my down wind sailing. very very smooth. sail looked and based on my greenhorn knowledge performed great. pretty happy with it.
(she's sitting on her perserver)
dad and i talking about tiller tamers.
anyway. now time to figure out why i had the haywire when coming about with the wind and how best to solve my topping lift problem.
Thanks for reading!
https://www.facebook.com/tipsyravensailing/
i learned some things about the boat too, and one thing in particular i got questions about
so there's day one had some trouble getting out there but i made it work. any tighter to the wind and i was having serious problems. it was very frustrating to say the least. but we made it work and went swimming hove to and everyone had a good time. coming back though?
i wouldn't believe it either. (and yes i know a screw is missing, my drill battery died just as i was finishing). but seriously... 7.1 kn. we saw 12 kn of wind. heeled over enough to make the gf panic. but i put her on the tiller and gave her something to keep her mind busy while working the sheets. all in all fantastic. water right up to the rub rail. might have warranted reefing but i felt safe enough.
so... question one. we tried to come into harbor, so going with the wind from a port close hauled to port beam and the boat went... haywire. i dunno. she ended up letting go of the tiller and the boat settled out, turnnig hard into the wind. i'm still unsure how it went wrong. thankfully lots of room to make whatever mistake it was but it is frustrating to try to reconcile what the heck happened. we were easily pulling 6+ kn at the time and heeled pretty hard... i thought going wit hthe wind would relax us, not damn near throw people over. ideas?
anyway, we went out again the next day with my dad and gf and we had an even better time. wind coming out of the north west so we put it on a close hauled and sailed out a ways, hove to and went swimming again. sailing it back was easy as pie too. lot less wind ...
but still happy with what we did with it.
on the second trip out we're staring at the mainsail getting frustrated with its shape and i realize... the topping lift is preventing the boom from coming down. DOH! i forgot every time to take it off. but... when i do, the damn boom lays right down in the cock pit and is a disaster zone. lol. so i think i'm gonna rig up a pulley on the end of the lift and use an open cleat on the boom to make a topping lift doodad per some pics i saw. anyways. we let that thing out and managed to wrangle it while getting the sail up and i was SOOOO much happier about my down wind sailing. very very smooth. sail looked and based on my greenhorn knowledge performed great. pretty happy with it.
(she's sitting on her perserver)
dad and i talking about tiller tamers.
anyway. now time to figure out why i had the haywire when coming about with the wind and how best to solve my topping lift problem.
Thanks for reading!
https://www.facebook.com/tipsyravensailing/