New Main Sail up and a lack of time.

                    There are times when I think that having 5 kids, 8 cars, 3 houses and 2 boats may be impacting my ability to succeed in my new career as a professional blogger. When does the first pay check get here anyway?

Late this spring my new main arrived right on time from Martin and Summerset Sails. http://www.somersetsails.com/ My first impressions were that it was a very nice basic sail and a great price. 

Installation went fine and even though they were a little sloppy on cleaning up the loose threads it is such a huge improvement over the old blown out main it's amazing. I haven't even played with the top removeable battan yet. There just hasn't been time. 

Pum really seemed to respond to the extra sail area, I had some room and ordered the sail roughly 10% larger than the original. Probably didn't hurt that it was actually sail shaped now!

We thought we had hit a log and were quite startled but then it kept happening as we were heavily heeled over,  with the new sail power we actually had one of the bilge keels partially out of the water and it was banging into the crests of the waves. I couldn't quite capture it with the phone and it was a miracle that the iphone didn't go kersplunk!

Sam at sail camp.

Sam, Lauren and I had a great overnight but got to take a unplanned hike to fill up a gas tank when we were surprised by the Anchor High marina being closed and no fuel available. 

Next I'm going to finally write a bit about Pum's history as a liveaboard back in the 70's