3rd Time Out - First Video

I am gradually sorting out the details but there is still a way to go. This trip out was at Caloundra on Queensland's Sunshine Coast with some of the guys from the Wooden Boat Association of Queensland. The day started with light winds that increased gradually as a storm built up in the afternoon.

Here is a short video of Sea Minor sailing early in the day. There would be more but the camerman was sailing single handed and filming with the other!

The afternoon storm caught us 2 or 3 miles from "home", fortunately we were pulled up on a beach with a shelter. The wind died to nothing but the thunder banged, the lightning flashed and the rain poured. When the storm had passed we set out for home. No wind, one Navigator with an outboard towing an Oughtred Fulmar towing my Navigator. Here's the view from the end of this chain.

During the course of the day I bent my boom slightly at the point where the vang attaches and it didn't spring back when the vang was released. The boom was a length of 38mm 16 gauge aluminium tube and has been replaced by a heavier section - 50mm diameter with a 3mm wall. This is a good deal heavier and I will have to be sure to duck!