Sooo.... Saturday 4/3/21, My son and I went down to our CLUB to finish preping his boat for the season. about an hour of sail repair and rigging adjustments, we set the boat in the water. Hydra Beast was finaly wet on her bottom for the first time in 2021. We got prepaired to push away from the dock, rased the main...un-tied... and the halyard knot pulled lose, the sail slid down the track and we had to quickly figure out how to get back to the dock! ( This is #1...we did leave the dock...lol)
Once back at the dock, i was able to float the boat away from the dock turn it on its side, and restring the haylard. I guess this was a good test of the new boyancy we added to the boat over the winter! With the halyard re-strung thru the mast head again, Tommy went to bail out the water that no resided in the was completly dry cockpit...lol.
Round 2! We rased the mainsail again, pulled some outhaul, added some vang.. and off the dock we went! Tacking back and forth away from the club felt great! Tommy was getting a feel for the boat.I was also figuring out how everything we added to the boat was going to work now! lots of new tech to help the boat perform... Some lines I found were much too long and one we get his new sails we can shorten them accourdingly. ( This was #2)
We sailed Out to the river and eventualy turned down wind again to come back to the dock. 5.89kts on GPS !not too shabby for a boat built in 1974! We arrived back a t the dock where we could practice arriving and leacing the dock. We tied up for a few mis, grabed for sports drinks from the cooler in the car and back out we went! (This is #3) We put in 5.56 miles total that day, mostly in Back creek and 2 short stents on the river. We decided not to venture too far out with out a chase boat or some one to help incase something happend. Tommy is "Stupid excited" and I am as well for him. its going to be a fun year!