The long wait is over. Vento Solare was launched at Borden Light Marina on 11 April. We’ve been ready for over a week but had to wait for a boat getting a new engine that was blocking the travel lift. As soon Vento Solare was launched, a quick sea trial was run to perform initial calibration on the new instruments and autohelm. Everything works great.
Many tasks were accomplished over the winter. Some notable projects include: all new B&G instruments and Autohelm, new lifeline cushions so the crew may hike more comfortably, all winch drums resurfaced and added Expedition software to laptop for race planning and instrument calibration.
The 3Di main and cruising jib are bent on so Bill & Larry can deliver the boat from Borden Light Marina to the Navy Marina on Friday 12 April. Our first pleasure sail will happen on Saturday. Many of the spring clean up tasks happened over the past week while waiting to launch. Vento Solare is in great shape to start the 2019 season. Thanks very much to Cheryl & Mike Marrone for hull waxing, Sam Goldblatt for wet sanding and Larry Bissonnette for helping with boat projects and delivery.
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In the end it turned out that the Ida Lewis YC awarded the youth trophy to Vento Solare. Pictures from the award ceremony and the trophies are below.
Boat Trophy and Youth Keeper Trophy for Austin, Rory & Henry
Youth Trophy Presentation
Rory & Austin Receiving Keeper Trophies (Missing Henry)
Henry with Keeper Trophy at Home
Bill
Thank you for a great time. That hour penelty seems steep. If you look at yellow brick there were a few other boats in our class that were just inside that south east dot. Not sure how picky they were being.
Either way great work by everyone. Enjoy the party.
Bill went to the protest hearing about our sailing in the exclusion zone to fix the spinnaker. The results of the protest was the RC added 1 hour to our corrected time. This put us in 2nd place for the youth entries. We would have had 1st in youth if not for this. Hope to see you all at the awards ceremony!
Updated boat call time is 10am this morning. Those needing ride on base meet 0945 pass & ID parking lot.
Happy Birthday Sarah at Cedar Point!