So I “finished” my prep yesterday. By “finished” I mean did everything I can do without another week to get things perfect.

The new foils are fitted, control systems done, and my I have blessed the boat with my best guess at a set-up has been done, (with help from Luka).

There is still a week of finishing to make them look all Gucci, so unfortunately that will have to wait until after the nats are finished.

One thing that I did not expect is to have to do was to make 4″ long gantry adjustment bolt. In my old rudder I had but 1 degree of angle in the gudgeons, but switching to the Ilett rudder I needed to get that adjustment back into the gantry. So 2 hours with a 1/4 UNF tap later and I had a shiny new adjustment bolt. As it turns out, it didn’t need 4″, and I had to shorten it again, but at least I now have the setup I want.

So tonight we pack to hit the road tomorrow, and I get the first sail of the new foils in Melbourne, and that is far from ideal.