Well after a well needed break and spending my weekends doing family stuff i finally got a nice day to get the flatpack (with modifications) back on the water. Now sporting a regular sheeting jib and a lower more raked set of spreaders (and the lowers removed) I headed out in about 10-15 knots. As soon as I was through the break water and hardening up on the wind I noticed the improvement, the boat just hooked in upwind and I quickly found a groove. I played around with a couple of OK dinghies which were tuning new sails and found I was footing fast but still pointing as high as them.
Pete then came out in his Nethercott (AUS9) and I was able to out point and easily pull away from him. The boat felt great and I wish I had it set up like this when I went to the Nationals!
Well its a week off skiing in NZ next week and then the winter hot up series - I'll also be looking to do some heats of the IC Traveller series this year.
