katy wrote:


Hey..it's great you're having so much fun and that Doeothy is shaping up
into a good sailor...good thing , with those winds, you didn't end up in
OZ with no reefing!

You got that right, Katy.

I just recently installed the reefing gear.

Today would have been a fine time to try it out but I was too -uhm-
concerned (yeah, that's it) to let go of the main sheet.

I did have to spill it a couple of times. I wanted to let her get
the feel of it, but ya gotta be pretty quick and firm on the stick.

She's still a little timid about the tiller being "backwards" to
get agressive with it.

She is picking it up - but with little mechanical background I do
quite a bit of regressive explaining.

Levers and switches and gears - Oh My!

But we're having fun.

And that's a Goof Thing (tm).

Richard