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    I've reached a bit of a milestone - the boat is finished and ready to sail! First launch should be sometime this coming weekend.

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    I milestone indeed! Congratulations on a great looking boat, and good luck with the launch!

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    That's awsome poit, congratulations.

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    Thanks guys. I haven't been out yet - I'm on a tidal beach and the tide is at the crack of dawn atm, and the wind doesn't know which way or how hard it wants to blow. That's my excuse anyway! I'll get out there eventually...

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    Bit the bullet and went out this morning. Was about 8-10 knots I guess, with one reef in the sail. Little bit daunting and nerve wracking hopping in a vessel you've never sailed before. I was quite well prepared as it turns out, but the first thing I didn't do that I should have done was spend some time walking/clambering around the boat in the water, with sail down, to get an idea of what my weight does to it when shifted around. Towards the end I spent some time sitting on the gunwale, but for the most part I was on the floor. Hiking straps are next on the agenda. And my non slip varnish on the floor isn't very non slip.

    It seriously felt like I needed at least a third hand and maybe a fourth out there. I was stuffing the tiller in my mouth or under my elbow so I could grab more rope to sheet the sail in. And it just stalled the only time I attempted to tack, so I spent the session trying to learn how to jibe. I didn't learn much. My jibing technique is to lose any excess speed, turn, let go of everything, duck, clamber to the other side of the boat as a bit of banging and clanking goes on, grab hold of the tiller and rope again and quickly assess what needs to be done to avoid capsizing. I'm sure this sort of thing can be done better.

    Stayed out fifteen minutes too long, so the boat is stuck on the mudflat for the day until I can (hopefully) retrieve it on the evening tide.

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    Reading that made me chuckle cos it makes me wonder how I'll go. I haven't sailed since I was a teen in the late 80s but I'll definitely be taking a kid or two as ballast, and if I do capsize I can blame one of them for sitting in the wrong position. Great to hear it was a successful launch Poit, congrats again! FWIW, the beached goat makes for an interesting pic.

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    I guess a few kids would be better than a few bags of sand for ballast - at least they shift around the boat under their own power. If you can learn them to follow your loudly barked instructions you might be onto a winner there Canoath!

    I went out again today, session number two. Learnt a few things. Learnt how to tack, and how to recover from a capsize - not in that order. It capsized as I was preparing to set off in waist deep water. I think having the daggerboard partly down too early made the boat less willing to stay underneath the sail (I wasn't in the boat at this point), and she was over before I knew it. It was surprisingly easy to right again by standing on the daggerboard, which is nice to know. And it took quite a bit of bailing to empty out, which is good incentive not to tip it over in the first place.

    Lesson learned from tacking: momentum is your friend when making the turn. Much more civilised than jibing.

    The wind picked up and it got a bit squally, which brought the session to a premature end because I'd exhausted all my adventurousness by that stage. Except getting the boat out of the water turned into the biggest adventure of the day because the water was much higher than I was counting on, and it was me and the boat versus the wind and the concrete wall for a while there. And no anchor. I haven’t organised an anchor yet because I’m still trying to figure out how to stop it denting the boat.

    Haven’t thought of a name yet either. Still working on that.

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    I'm going to dread capsizing. Of the couple of videos showing the GIS capsize, the one that surprised me was from Dan Walker I think where after rowing the GIS into shore with mast in, sail down and daggerboard up, his GIS tips over easily whilst he's getting out the side. I was surprised but I suppose it makes sense the way the GIS floats and would be top heavy with the mast stepped and nothing really to stop it rolling if nudged when stationary.


    Regarding anchors, have you seen these nylon ones? Cooper Anchors Australia - for jetskis, Kayaks, Boats I bought the small red one for my Eureka a couple years ago, usually store it in a flotation tank. When we're out it'll sit in the hull, kicked about, no dramas about damaging the hull. I'll probably get the large black one for the GIS.

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    I soon figured out (ie recalled reading on the forum) the other day the only place to get in the boat from deep water is from the rear (and I tied a rope with a foothold in it to the rear for getting back in in a deep water capsize), so I guess the same goes for getting out - if you can't step straight onto the ground/if you have to put lots of weight on the lip, you need to get out from the rear, not the side. Or have someone leaning on the opposite side of the boat.

    Those nylon anchors look good. I was given a 2kg sand anchor kit (including 4 metres of chain) out of the blue as a Xmas gift, which is more than enough for the goat, and too much for when I'm only out for a few hours and probably won't be anchoring at all. I've been eyeing off these folding grapnel anchors, which will fit in the hatch, just so I can let the boat go for a minute while I wander ashore to get the dolly without the boat crashing into the concrete wall while my back is turned.

    I think I'm starting to figure out why so many guys have gone on to make box booms for their goat - shed relevance deprivation. What else is there to do in the shed when you've finished building the boat, but make a fancy new boom? I'm thinking I may have to build one with a view to eliminating the harness across the rear seat. That's what I'm thinking.

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