Brigantia once again showed that when we get it right she can really fly along very well but she also showed that with a big overlapping genoa she'll get very unruly and behave like a stubborn mule if she's mistreated - several times we allowed the genoa to get backwinded through lack of concentration and were left with no option other than to tack - all very well if there's room but if we did it at the wrong time ....
The shroud covers have helped the genoa sheet hang ups and the dodge of attaching a length of line across the sheets to form a loop ahead of the sheet knots seems to be working quite well too. We'll know better whether it's really worked when we get into the light conditions where hangups were occurring every tack.
I'm increasingly convinced that we need to do some rig tuning though!
Saturday was a very fustrating day. The breeze was constantly shifting, dropping, picking up again and we could never get into any sort of sailing rythym. Sunday morning was a wee bit too exciting for the girls but good fun, if a bit hairy at times, for the chaps! With hindsight, I wouldn't push on around the corner into the Brandy Hole in those conditions under sail again - there's not much room to muck around up there!
I haven't mentioned in the daily logs the abortive attempt to resolve the problems up the mast. We still need to retrieve the topping lift and we've now realised that the genoa halyard is rove incorrectly at the masthead (which is why, we think, the furling gear is so stiff). I have a cunning plan .. watch this space!
Oh and finally, photos ... I didn't take many and due to the conditions the ones I took were crap! So there aren't any :)
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