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Bill McLean
We've been sailing this boat every chance we get- maybe half a dozen day sails so far. What a sweetie she is. Points close hauled like on rails. Pretty tender when the wind is up: she heels pretty good but stays there- no rocking or tipping fast- My wife likes that! Light wind? I pride myself on my "dead wind" sailing techniques, so that works well with her as she is not a great light wind gal.
Steep learning curve with this old boat. A few things stopped working; tach, depth finder, reverse gear, galley pump, which I expected. Well not those things, just when a different person operates stuff things sometimes don't like how they're being run so they stop. I am quite lazy but I am enjoying getting things fixed. Got reverse working first and now am figuring how to use propeller walk to my advantage when backing into our slip- and am succeeding with the help of youtubes!
Although all the thru hulls and valves are in good shape the more I read about them the more fear I got: half of all boat sinkings are at the dock, etc. I've sailed under 20 footers all my life and have never had a thru hull. I stopped reading about them and I am over it now. I will keep them maintained as best I can and what will be, will be. Something Doris Day sung, Que Sara, Sera, right?
My mid 20ish boys visit as much as they can to go sailing. She's a great family building tool. They're getting to be better sailors. Sailing has always come naturally to me- seat of the pants I guess, so it has been interesting teaching and verbalizing to them what to do. I've never given so much thought to sailing since I used to play around with rudderless sailing.
Anyway, she's a fine sailboat and we are having a ball with her. Still no name. Thanks again for your support.
Steep learning curve with this old boat. A few things stopped working; tach, depth finder, reverse gear, galley pump, which I expected. Well not those things, just when a different person operates stuff things sometimes don't like how they're being run so they stop. I am quite lazy but I am enjoying getting things fixed. Got reverse working first and now am figuring how to use propeller walk to my advantage when backing into our slip- and am succeeding with the help of youtubes!
Although all the thru hulls and valves are in good shape the more I read about them the more fear I got: half of all boat sinkings are at the dock, etc. I've sailed under 20 footers all my life and have never had a thru hull. I stopped reading about them and I am over it now. I will keep them maintained as best I can and what will be, will be. Something Doris Day sung, Que Sara, Sera, right?
My mid 20ish boys visit as much as they can to go sailing. She's a great family building tool. They're getting to be better sailors. Sailing has always come naturally to me- seat of the pants I guess, so it has been interesting teaching and verbalizing to them what to do. I've never given so much thought to sailing since I used to play around with rudderless sailing.
Anyway, she's a fine sailboat and we are having a ball with her. Still no name. Thanks again for your support.