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14 July 2011 10:20 pmWell, the boat floats. She is watertight. She sails!
Admittedly, she doesn't sail downwind (and won't until/unless I work out a way of fixing the malaligned steering gear), but she sails quite nicely upwind, and the cracked deck and gaping hull planks are both definitely a thing of the past.
It's quite weird spending an hour or so desperately attempting to 'tack' downwind, only for the boat inadvertently to gain so much to windward as to put her right back where she started; a complete inversion of the full-scale experience, as it were.
Admittedly, she doesn't sail downwind (and won't until/unless I work out a way of fixing the malaligned steering gear), but she sails quite nicely upwind, and the cracked deck and gaping hull planks are both definitely a thing of the past.
It's quite weird spending an hour or so desperately attempting to 'tack' downwind, only for the boat inadvertently to gain so much to windward as to put her right back where she started; a complete inversion of the full-scale experience, as it were.