when we acquired nopantsdance it came with a trailer. i really liked that fact: normally the boat stays on land but every now and then we may need to move it and this is pretty much impossible without a trailer that is tailor-made for the boat. one thing is that the boat is pretty long,…
i did mention that we had a few issues with the self-tacking jib not tacking by itself, which was a bit frustrating and really slowing us down. the issue was not difficult to diagnose: the traveler car that is supposed to run along its aluminium channel was a bit hesitant. maybe a bit of a…
when you work hard to acquire new skills sometimes things go (a little bit) wrong. we were lucky and managed to catch those but it could easily have gone the other way. i also think this looks funny. anyway, enjoy!
nat was away with friends for the weekend but the training must continue and luckily rob was again available to help me improve my helming. and i agree it needs improving: my tacks in particular were really bad today, but my steering keeps improving. i also didn’t mind overtaking the two a class upwind –…