Thursday 28th August 2008
Cruising Chute Deployed
We took Fai Tira out for a sail in Start Bay. The weather was good and we headed off to Start Point. I wanted to try out the wind vane steering so we got the boat set up on a course and then deployed the wind vane it was working really well. A result, I thought, until the time came to take it down. Fai Tira sailed on, on her own, with nobody at the wheel. What a well set up boat. We decided to anchor off at Hallsands. Edward got straight into the fishing and a couple of big mackerel were caught.
We decided to sail back just using the cruising chute. This was a bit of a learning experience as we didn’t have enough lines and shackles to make it work properly but we got it flying and we ended up doing 9 knots across the Bay back to Dartmouth.
We decided to sail back just using the cruising chute. This was a bit of a learning experience as we didn’t have enough lines and shackles to make it work properly but we got it flying and we ended up doing 9 knots across the Bay back to Dartmouth.
