So Long

Wow is it really 2 months since I posted anything here.

Anyway, since the last post we've added a gennaker, a short bow sprit and am ingenious furling mechanism for a standard gennaker called a Roll Gen.

The Roll Gen has given us a few teething problems but the theory certainly seems to be there and we'll struggle on until the problems are sorted. The good news is that with a decent sized crew the gennaker can still be handled as a standard asymmetric.

The pole is a neat add on unit that is used on the secondary anchor roller which limits us to one anchor for now but if we need a secondary we'll figure something out.

Thanks to Bobbie and Judy at Howison Marine for sorting out the orders of these and the back-up support.

We had a regatta over the last 2 weekends at RSYC where we sailed in the PY division which is very much the friendly division and the racing not so serious as the handicaps get adjusted after every race to prevent anyone from running away with the regatta. It was good fun and somehow we managed to win overall.

Thanks to the crew of Lizzie, Serene, Gordon, Guz, Louis, Andrew and Mathew in addition to Shaz and myself.