I call that a win,,,

made it to the local lake and put BlueJean on water. First sat on her tail and had that back hatch wide open and just watched for a couple of minutes.

No leakies,,,, Whoohoo,,,, Put her through some paces and recheck.

Did a couple of wind sprints,,, She is faster because I don’t have to keep adding correcting strokes when the skeg is down. And I ran it in a couple of different points in deployed. From about 1″ showing to full on. No wind so I can’t say that this is going to make a big difference there, but seeing how she goes from locked in with the skeg deployed to ‘think I wanna go this way’ when its retracted (same as she did pre-skeg) I think this is a winner.

And she rolls.

Feeling good and relaxed and there were a handful of people around (if things went sideways) so I set up, capsized, and rolled right back up. A little sloppy, but I did not push off the bottom, just a clean sweep and up,,, but I am out of practice and have never set her up for hip-snaps before (don’t ask me why, dunno,,, just never had.) So, double win tonight.

and found a leak, BUT NOT, in the work I recently did. Nopes, when I got back to shore and popped that back hatch cover off, the water was dripping down to the keel from,,,, You guessed it, the hatch cover,,, No biggie, just needs ‘adjusted’,,, which means Dio gets to practice his sewing skills again. Tighten up that bungee cord in the cover lip (these are like cockpit covers, Neoprene with bungee outer lip. This one has always been loose, so,,,,)