I went in for a bottom job and to redo the feathering prop. Still arguing with the yard. LOL. Thanks, it was a long trip and I learned a lot. We jacked it up with boards and bottle jacks and layed it over onto a flat
bed truck and trucked it to the yard. Then we jacked it up onto the stands.
What a
Christmas that was. The
fog in the
Houston Ship Channel set in at noon in a freak change in the direction of the
wind. Have you ever heard 50 supertankers blowing their Fog Horns? Shiver Me Timbers Batman! I was dropping anchor 2 miles off, but with sandbars and so much there was no way out. So I beached it straight away up to the road. After a few weeks I noticed at high tide the water was over the road. At low tide it was like cement for 100 yards.
Sort of a strange way out of this predicament.
It was in New Orleans on Lake Ponchatrain for a while.
I was out of the dry
dock and saillng the Lake Ponchatrain in some really nice
wind. Usually I put up the Fore,Jib, and Mizzen but this time I went with the main and took whatever tack was max. The lake is huge, and in some abeam wind with all 4
sails up just to see. 8 knots for like 3 hours. OMGoodness. Then everyone wanted it and its been a war. LOL. Its been chained and
sold and I have worked to find it and get it. So let me know if you have it and find it too strange or tough. In the meantime I will argue to get it back.
Thanks yall. That rudder gets overpowered, but it is so good in the open water set and
self tailing. The very wide rudder was broke in Ike and I didnt even know it. Quite a time I must say. I hope to get the issues straight. I sort of fashioned the design of this
racing rudder after a Rodgers Racer/Cruiser I had for a bit. I think we over rudder by design. Maybe there is a reason but for most times the course can be set with the
sails and the rudder together it seems.
If in all this nonsense someone has this yacht, I would love to get it back. I cannot explain, it is just ridiculous!