Lay day: locked and loaded

So today was a Lay Day in the regatta. We finished the mast – which was kind of fun, since we had time and the tools to do it right – and checked it out, raised the sails, did all the things, and I *think* we are locked and loaded for racing tomorrow.

I know what you’re thinking – yes, I thought so before, right before breaking our mast. So I’m only cautiously optimistic 🙂

Spot looks the same, right? All that work to get right back to where we thought we were two days ago. That’s how it goes for boats.

Even flew the chute in the parking lot, and nearly took off in a gust. The 505 has evolved a cool mechanism whereby the trapeze wires are lifted by the spinnaker halyard up the mast from the hounds (point where the shrouds are attached) to the point where the spinnaker is raised. This causes the crew position to change downwind, and also lets their weight serve as a counter-balance to the spinnaker, stabilizing the mast.

Anyway that works again too 🙂

And in other news, I have a new phone! Yay. And a new supposedly waterproof new phone case (from “lifeproof”).

I am not a phone-case person, for me, Apple spends all that time to make a phone as slim and pretty as possible, why desecrate a $1,000 item with a $45 plastic case. But for sailing I’m thinking maybe it does make sense 🙄

Some experiments to verify the iPhone camera is waay better than my iPad’s:

Yep, better :). And so now onward to dinner…