It is a nice vid and nostalgic too, shows how nice the countryside is, where you live too.

Gary

Thank you for the video.  If ever a picture painted a thousand words ...

Congratulations. 

Your worldwide junk rig community salutes your achievement. 

Jonathan  

Brilliant video ( here's a working link), lovely boat, one happy man.

Have some great sailing and a Merry Christmas.

Gary King wrote:Y' learn doncha?

I think the only reason we havent done anything really silly on Ashiki yet is because we did them all on the previous boat..  I thought you would have called up your friends in sea rescue to give you a tow (done that too - in the other boat).

The thought very briefly crossed my mind but I was determined to get myself out of trouble. Besides I would have copped so much stick from them on my next roster day I would never live it down.:)
I've really got to get a tender though, running her in till the keel touches is a poor option.

There's two factors here that weren't in my favour. One was the wind direction, the port tack put us on a course virtually at right angles to the direction of the river and a flood tide. the second was the wind itself, it wasn't blowing steady but gusting and then dying off. I'd get a good run on the starboard tack, go to tack and and the wind would ease and she'd stall. The result was we would have to fall off and end off closer and closer to a lee shore.
I could come up with lots of reasons which may or may not be true. I was under a lot of pressure to be home in time and this probably affected my decision making more than anything.
I know she tacks well on both tacks but for what ever reason I just couldn't get it right yesterday. it was probably more to do with not enough experience. I worked out a solution and got us out of trouble and home in time to drop a friend off at the airport but I wouldn't want to repeat the day.
Biggest mistake was not having enough fuel on board.