sailing try-outs

This week end we took some friends Chris &kathy and Steve &liz out for a sail, lucky for me both the boys are keen multi sailers and when they heard that trinescape hadnt really been tried out they were both keen to see what she would go like .Tina and myself have sailed her with only the head sail quite a few times and only once with all sails up but the wind was only about 5kts but she pointed very well but we were keen to see how our one off design would perform !. We left our mooring at about 10.00 o'clock and there was little or no wind but the forecast was for an afternoon sea breeze of 15kts ,we motored for about 3 hours and eventually we anchored for lunch and while there we threw over a few crab nets and we ended up with 10 blues yum! .After having lunch we packed everything up and prepared the sails ,while tina and i up anchored we slowly motored into the wind to allow the boys to set the main and also un furl the head sail by this time we had about 15 kts of wind gusting to 18 every now and then ,well as soon as i beared away the sails filled and we were off !the best i have had the boat up to was 6kts and that was with the tide behind me! well she blew that record in seconds and we were sitting on 8 kts and it was fantastic!, it was a bit later when we realized that we had forgotten to put the batterns in but we all thought bugger it -next time, all the girls were laughing at me because i was grinning like an idiot but i didnt care i was on cloud 9 all my fears about how our one off design would perform were laid to rest the boys were very impressed with her performance and how she handled the conditions as there was roughly a metre and a bit sea running and there was no bridge deck slamming at all even though we only have 700mm clearance they say 600mm is the minimum but we were ok . We sailed for about 3 hours and we enjoyed every minute of it i cant wait till next time untill then seeya later