Today was a good day: with a pleasant crew (Ana and Gil) we went for a sail on Oleander. As it was quite gusty we put the main sail on the third reef so to make sure things were very safe. With an inexperienced crew (and that includes myself because I don’t know the new main-sail yet) I don’t want to overpower the boat and get in potential trouble.

Unfortunately one crew member lost the winch handle while tightening the main sail and as it floats we had to do a man overboard procedure! We did get alongside it but didn’t have anything ready to scoop it up so I hope someone will be able to use it at some point in time.

It was a great sail and Ana even tried to confuse the local ham radio community by making a QSO on the Dublin repeater with her callsign EI/EA7KMA/MM 🤣

Thanks to my new AIS class B transponder I can actually see exactly what we have been doing via the MarineTracker iOS application:

We made it to our home port safely with everybody intact. A nice shower to get everything wet when we were cleaning up the boat just added a bit of zest to the good experience! 🌈