Yay! New Mainsail!

With winds gusting to 30 knots and light drizzle in the bay, we were nervous about going in to the jetty to fit the new mainsail, but Ken from Charm and Brian from Cockatoo came to give us a hand,  and the jetty was a bit more sheltered than out in the bay.  Thanks guys!

We first had to tie up stern in to get the spare battens out from the boom, then turn around bow in to fit the sail into the wind. Charles and Ryan (Doyle Sails) fitted the battens as they fed the sail into the mast tracks.  A couple of battens had to be shortened, so it was scary to see him cutting them in situ with a hacksaw!

Yikes!  Not the hacksaw!!

Peter and Brian attaching the halyard

sail goes up...

... and up ...

and fits!

Brian, Ryan and Peter folding sail back down

... and it fits in the bag!

After the sail was fully raised, fitted and checked it was time to lower, fold and repack it into the boom bag. Easy peasy!  Tomorrow we will sort out the reef lines and sail away to Woodwark Bay for the test run.