First Sail

Had the first sail of the boat on Tuesday, perfect conditions for the first sail wind between 5-10 knots, sunny, 13 degrees, no-one else on the lake.  First impressions: what a blast, seriously responsive boat, nothing was tuned but still every little bit got turned into instant acceleration, beautiful.  I need some work though to master this boat and get it fully under control, especially with respect to adjusting everything from the wire.  May have to get a new trapeze harness, the one I've got now is just too restrictive and gets caught on too many things, even so I need lots of practice of single handing from the wire, with and without the kite up.  Learned pretty quick that this lake is far too small for a boat this fast!  Also learned that despite having about 12 fast cats at the club including A class and F18, no one races, so I'll need to do some travelling to find some racing - that'll have to wait though until I'm good enough not to be a danger to shipping!  Not much sailing gonna happen this month, MSc thesis and a couple of law assignments have to be done by end of April.