Happy to help break down the rig and get a boat, that has been sold, ready for a trailer voyage. But there's no denying it's also quite sad.
I had a lot of fun on BOXCAR and the boat did well (in OUR conditions, e.g., less than 9 knots of breeze). I'm no wizard on the mainsheet, but I think I got sufficiently dialed in after three seasons to not disgrace myself. Or the boat.
I know there was one race where I probably had the travller up 3 or 4 inches too far on one or two legs and we may have been a 0.2 kn faster had I eased it a smidge, enough to correct into 1st instead of second. That's how finicky BOXCAR was. Fun to sail but requiring a ton of vigilance.
No cleat it and leave it...in any case.
And I do not mean to suggest in any way that my performance in other races was optimal. But that's it, right? I go into every race wanting to get a 100%....can't tell you how rarely that happens, assuming it EVER has.
Today, the last I'll probably ever see the boat, I heard a comment from a BCYA competitor that pretty much sums up the boat. "She needs a little more keel under her."
When we considered reefing in 12 knots? Yeah I'd say so.