Health Bulletin

Elise's jib track is extended so the #3 should be trimmed really nicely now -and Elise got a new tiller!

She's ready for prime time :-)

Elise's new mast maiden voyage

Belle, Suzanne, Pete and his mom and I took Elise out for her new mast's maiden voyage. Picked up a couple of things that still need to be fixed, but overall, looking pretty good!

Mast is up and new clutch is available. We put up the new mainsail which goes up and down like a charm (better than the old one which incurred a lot of friction) - the new mast stayed up which is a relief obviously.

The boat was static tuned for light air and as the breeze was becoming heavier and heavier, we decided to head back to the Club. Backstay felt really tight and I wonder if there is enough play in it. Will discuss with the rigger. We also noticed that the cam cleat on the side of the mast which we use to cleat off the spinnaker halyard when we race around the Bay was missing.

A couple of other minor things were discovered - and this week, the following will get done:

• dynamic tune the boat (incl. for heavier/stormy weather)
• add cam cleat (otherwise, no biggy, we can run the halyard back)
• replace tiller (the current one is starting to crack itself loose...)
• extend jib car track forward by a couple of inches
• connect tri-color to the connector box

and she'll be all ready to sail!!!

Then a couple more projects on the list -

• fix emergency nav light (deck level, for some reason, they don't light up anymore. Either a bulb change, or a loose/corroded connection somewhere probably)
• Change a flush Harken block used by the Vang line
• add stereo system (it will be nice to have this for Vallejo)
• re-paint deck (it's becoming very see-through)

Photo of Elise's new main courtesy of Belle!