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| Freshly anti-fouled |
We got a phone call yesterday confirming that Seasprint's antifoul was complete. Cameron and I, assisted by Pete and Barry as crew, met at Manly this morning to sail her back to Scarborough. All that had to be done was paint the bottom of the keel and where the fore and aft stilts were, once she was back in the sling of the travelift. The blokes at East Coast Marina again took great care, and Seasprint was carefully put back in the water; good for another 12 months (or more ...).
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| Sailing with a parachute |
One of the things we wanted to do on the sail back was test the parachute as a head sail. I have a 23ft parachute, thanks to Pete's brother, Steve. We were surprised how easy it was to launch and recover, but that may have had something to do with the wind only being 10-15 kts. The end result was, it pulled us along at about 4kts. While Seasprint could easily handle a parachute of 30ft diameter, I am happy to stick with this one. I will use the spinnaker (which is a much bigger surface area and can be used up to 60 degrees either side of downwind) in winds up to 20kts, and pull out the parachute when running in stronger winds. It was good fun, and the only tweak we deemed necessary is a 20ft line between the two shackles so the parachute maintains it's shape a bit better.
We move on to the boat next week, and still plan to depart on Sunday 10th July.
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