Sunday, May 1, 2011

More pink & More sailing



A little more pink bits for Shazza, you can blame Jon's sexy paint job. I always thought the plain old white paint job was plain old boring!!

That was Sunday, so Monday we went for a sail and brought out the big kite for only the third time. This sail was purchased when it was offered to us after only being used twice and not like by the guys who made it. It had a very small alteration and went straight on our boat. That is one thing that Shazza has outside the rules--a long spinnaker pole to make the big kite work. The red spinnaker we use as a fractional (we have a 'snotter' as the uppers), the big kite is mast head setup.
Latest video shows Donna on the helm and me trying to teach her how to use it under kite. The big kite is 50+m2 and she had trouble trying to trim it in the 6-8knots today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJLo5cNfefg