So today was the big day, I headed out in the morning for a “systems check” run and came away with a rather large smile. After not having sailed a narrow moth for over a year with any success, much less a foiler, to get it up and flying was great, and yes it has all been worth it, even though it didn’t feel like it a couple of weeks ago when I totaled my main foil.

I didn’t get around the course, and frankly I never intended to. I had three half hour runs in total, mostly required to get the skipper back into the groove of it all.

I had a couple of minor issues, like destroying my wand rolling the boat down on to the beach, but the good thing about living a few blocks away is that you can quickly dispatch a messenger to pick up another one. Also the mainsheet works much better when you thread it around the ratchet block the right way.

The wand setup worked great, aggressively pulling the boat down when it got to high, so the skipper now just needs to learn to trust it.

Overall there a still a few things to do, but isn’t there always. thanks to Ethan, Luka, my brother Andrew, Dad, Gilly and Mark for all the help getting this far.