First Splash

I launched the boat yesterday afternoon after registering with the marina. It took nearly two hours to get the boat from its parking spot to the hoist into the water and locked up. This should go down to less than an hour with practice an help. There were delays in remembering the the combination, finding the dock lines, towing the trailer under the hoist, hooking up, breaking the hoist control temporarily, and handling the boat and hoist single handed.
The boat has a lot of windage, so it is a challange to control the boat by the dock lines while manually rotating the hoist to put the boat in the water. Easier with help and in less wind.

I got the bulb out of the non-working stern light. The filament looked intact, but there was corrosion on one contact, so hopefully a new bulb will do the trick. I also noticed what looks like chafe on the standing end of the 2 to 1 main halyard at the top of the mast. Our plan calls for dropping the mast when we go to Santa Barbara the first of August. Hopefully it wont be a problem until then.

First solo sail today.