Today we did another sail with Gil and Paddy. Look at the new main sail:

Unfortunately there are a few problems with it which I hope work out with the sailmaker:

• When reefed, the boom is too low so I have to lower the spray hood. This wasn’t the case with the old sail. And must be fixed because I’d like to keep a dry cockpit and cabin entrance in bad weather!
• The block for the main sheet on the boom is doing funny stuff because the boom can’t freely rotate. I think this happens because the clew of the main sail is now attached to the boom and not the boom plate. I will change this (against the wishes of the sail maker but he should have given me a copy of my old sail).
• I managed to pop the rivets off the boom vang inside the boom. But this was always a weak spot. I’m going to design a bigger plate with 8 rivets so it will take a huge force to get that out!

Here you can see the Poolbeg Light House on our way back into the river: