Raw sailing(video)

Hello!

Sailing Kvark has been a joy so far! I stayed on board for about 24 hours. Of these hours I slept 9. I filmed some raw footage, could not stop taking a selfie shot on board:

She is a bit wobbly when unloaded. In this video, my girlfriend is sleeping in the boat while under sail. Tacking did want to give her a involuntary shift of sleeping-side.

I had some friends over to sail too. Then we had three people on deck and one below. She heeled her portside windows into water a few times.  That was a thrill, the water flowed out of the keel ballast tanks for a second or two so I could hear bubbling when the keel went back into water. So we know that ballasting is good for her.

Joosep fixed some rope (blue rope seen on fore deck in the video above) as a jury fore railing. It has turned out to be very effective at keeping people on board, as it kept one of my friends from sliding into water on a tack. What added excitement was that the rope actually came loose from its aft shackle and almost tossed my other friend overboard. Luckly, he got a hold of the mast. His feet did kiss the water, though.

I also excecuted a fine MOB (Man Overboard) manoeuvre, but instead of a man it was my dear cap that flew overboard. I got hit in the head by the boom three times. The third time was a charm and the hat flew over. I cursed out loud and thought that there it goes, ready to give it up. Then I thought again, of the fine things the hat means to me, and excecuted a jib and aimed the cap-rescue for a windward course. I  made the approach, saw the cap dissapear under the starboard side in the fore and then rushed to stretch my hand over starboard: and i got it! I felt really proud.
Other than that.

Sleeping two people in the boat is an excercise. I am a tall (6.3 ft) and rather wide guy. This meant that unfortunately my girlfriend had a worse nights sleep than I. The night was rather cold, 9 C (48 F) and the cabin interior was covered in dew in the morning. No trouble, a rag and good ventilation got rid of it. Should add a ventilation port into the companionway hatch.

All good for now, 20150802_224843still gaining momentum for editing all the launch material for a good post. So this raw video will do for starters.

Also, so far the top-speed under jury polytarp sails has been around 10 km/h or 5.4 knots. Downwind that was. On the left is a picture of my GPS, which shows the result of the 24 hours. Up and down the lake very many times!

Cheers!

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