Took waayyyy too long to finally put in the water, but I did today. With a couple friends and some help from a Brittish sounding gentleman we were able to sail down wind on a lake into a cove, turn around when we ran out of water and promptly get stuck there floating slightly backwards! The guy was on the bank watching us paddle back up wind, we brought 3 paddles for back up!, and eventually told me to steer over to the shore, kicked the other two out and took me out for an impromptu lesson on tacking! Was a really nice thing for him to do! We had a blast, even though the fight to get home was a long drawn out battle into the wind! It was seriously directly in our face as we were trying to get back to the dock to get the trailer!
Jib sail is still torn, I really lost interest in it for a few months... I'm happy I took it out today though, maybe someday soon I'll repair the jib sail and look into some rigging for it, as I was informed today that my random collection of small ropes tied together and a handfull of "D" clips I took from my rock climbing gear were poor choices for sail boat rigging!
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