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Originally Posted by craigtoo
Mike!
Wanna hear something neat? Your sailnumber is 1094, my Dad's is 1091 and I'm 1092... (unless you don't have your first boat anymore...)
Good luck with the launch...! an audiene is the worst thing...
craig
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I don't have that boat, but I will always remember her as my first.
The launch actually went perfectly, the boat and keel floated off the trailer no problem thanks to a nice steep dock, but the moment the rain stopped the wind started howling, like 20-25kts, and there is a small craft advisory so I didn't even put the sails on the boat, just raised the mast, attached the boom and motored to my slip...Which was an adenture in those winds! It took two tried to just make it into the channel between the two rows of slips, then I had the engine idling in REVERSE and was still moving forward (wind almost aft) and was blown into the neighboring slip (empty, thankfully). The wind was whisting through the rigging, and it took all my wife's strength to hold the boat off the dock while I tied up.
Some pics, short vid coming soon...
Arriving, still raining..
Mast up, just as I was raising it, the wind started piping up, so I had my wife hold the main halyard a little into the wind and that helped balance it, then I raised it as quickly as I could so the shrouds would center it tight.
In the water, the easiest part of the whole day
In the slip, look at the waves and foam already! I chose the closest slip to the end I could. I would love to have had the very end, but that's taken.
If anyone has some better tie up ideas, I'd like to hear them, with the howling winds the stern is tripled up, but probably doesn't have to be.
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