Back to St George for a casual warm up before next week's first race.The new Gemmell sail on the unstayed mast looks good but I did have some issues with the foils and controls. Photos shows the new long leach profile.
Boat in background is Bruce Gault's 16ft moth on steroids, inadvertant finger in bottom of view is shielding Dave's new secrets from early release, well his boat was there anyway.
Regardless KARMA appeared to go pretty well upwind compared to Dave, Luka and Lea and might be OK downwind too once I sort out a few wand issues.
I ended up breaking the 230g gantry so I guess it was just too light. Clive was kind enough to give me some short peices of 15mm CST pultrusion for the repairs. Already glued together.
I had problems with tacks and gybes, mostly due to me learning new techniques with aft mainsheet and swinging the tiller extension forward not aft, but also because the tiny rudder foil I was trying kept stalling out when the boat lost speed. Back to the std Illet rudder foil next week.
