Hello!
A few days back, we had a freediver, Erki, come sail with us. Or rather, he was dragging along on the lake attached to the sailboat via a long line. We took down all sails at a deeper part of the lake so that Erki could do his freediving routines without peing pulled up by the speeding boat. There, Villem and I got bored and decided to toy around with heeling Kvark. It ended with Villem climbing almost to the top of the mast. We heeled her perhaps 80 degrees portside. The experience is that she is not easily upset and recovers easily. Turtling her could perhaps be acheived by loose cargo on board (a few hundred kilos plus the sailor inside), but not otherwise. Her hull is just that round. Also, we now have a GPS track with speeds marked. A few pictures:
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- A side note: once we saw a single wave traverse the lake. Perhaps it was a soliton.
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- Raivo lended us a dacron sail with proper form. It seems to be taking Kvark along faster than the polytarp. Plus, it has a color more suited to a sailboat.
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- Here is Villem trying to scale the mast. Soon after she went into a fast heel and landed very deep portside, perhaps 80 degrees. Erki, in the water at the time, said that her keel was completely out the water.
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- A shot of a lesser heel!
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- A very typical route along lake Saadjärv. On the left side we had trouble tacking and lost momentum. We jibed instead.
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- A makeshift cunningham for tightening the luff. The sail is not our boat specific and its luff is slightly too long.
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- At times, we arrive in dark.
Cheers!
