Emilia on the move

I think this thread needs an update.

Anyway, last weekend (a week ago) saw Emilia sailing on the lake Mälaren to spend two nights at anchor in the vicinity of the Swedish king's castle Drottningholm. Apart from just getting away for a while I also wanted to try the mainsail as it had be subjected to some changes. The sail is just a few years old and I have felt that it had a much too long leech, longer than the original sail that served Emilia for 15 year, and the problem being that the boom would come down too much in the cockpit when close hauled. I found this to be annoying enough to take it to the sail maker and have it altered.



The sail maker cut out an wedge that was 15 centimeters long in the aft end, thus making the leech 15 centimetres shorter.

I was also shown around the marina to take a look at one of the boats he races with. Those who have read recent posts in this thread know that Emilia is undergoing a project where I am fine sanding and polishing the bottom to make it as smooth as possible. The boat he showed me gave me some great inspiration for next years work on the bottom, which I plan to be the last year's work to finish this project.



Johan

Looks like you had a nice sail Johan. I’m a bit envious of you as my boat is out of the water now for the winter. What made it worst today was I was down at Donaghadee looking out from the harbour and I could see Scotland, the Isle of Man and a yacht sailing up the North Channel.