The boss enjoying a final day on the dock…

Tenderloins grilling for crew burritos.

We are on our way to Long Beach. We left the dock at about 8:30 this morning and will keep motoring up to LB until we find some useful wind. Our target is to try and find some decent breeze so that we can continue to see the boat and rig set up in the pressure. The boat is pretty much all packed and ready to race. The foul weather gear is on, sails are on, food is loaded and the whole crew is here.

Everyone is anxious to start, especially now that the first fleet started.

Doogie

just a short video of us hoisting the main and stacking the sails.

Hello again,
We’ve had a busy few weeks. We sailed for 5 days testing the rig and getting it tuned. We also tested out the various other systems on the boat. All checked out well. We then had 5 days to work on the boat and shorten the work list. We started at about 4 pages and now it’s down to just a little over page. Hap arrived Friday and we started sailing again. Most of the crew is here now and we are looking at all our possible sail combos. And there are lots of combos possible!
We have removed quite a bit of hardware in winches and hydraulics so we have been sorting out how to get the same jobs done with less. All this has been in an effort to get weight off the boat. We will sail again tomorrow in San Diego before heading up to Long Beach on Tuesday.
Doogie