Tuning Mast and Sails

Sunday May 7th

The weather was beautiful; sunny and 20+ degrees.

Tightend up the forestay/backstay.
Tensioned the upper shrouds.
Tensioned the forward lowers for a little bit of mast bend.
Snugged up the aft lowers.

Attached the backstay adjuster.
Attached the traveller lines.
Rigged up the mainsheet.
Attached the boomvang.
Attached the reefing hook.

Hoisted the 110 jib, and bagged it on the foredeck.
Hoisted the main, inserting the battens.
Discovered that one of the jiffy sail slides was missing.
Set the main up for a reef, adding the reefing lines.

Off to Marten's Chandlery for the sail slide; he didn't have one.

Got back to the dock, and was about to out for a sail, but Harvey needed a hand putting his mast up.
Harvey is the skippeer on a Mirage 33, that I crew on.
This took over an hour, but it was a good learning experience. 
Sherry Lynn said that getter her mast up was the best Mother's day present she had gotten in a while.

Finally got out for a sail with the jib and a reefed main (because of the missing slide).
There wasn't much wind, really should had the full main and the genoa.

Was only doing 1-2 knots, stayed out for about half an hour before heading in.
It was great to be out on the water!

When back to the dock, there wasn't any water in the bilge; YEAH!!!