The Big Launch!

We had a great evening at the Hove Lagoon last night, the weather was perfect with sunshine and a nice constant breeze. Seven boats took to the water and the crews quickly realised that there is a lot more than merely steering you boat around with the rudder they are keen to lean about tacking, gybling and reaching. The boats all sailed really well and are easy to manouver though Jame's sprung a small leak which resulted in a dead sail servo also Sam spent too much time heeled over in the choppy end of the pool as salt water got into his reciver and one servo! Somehow the plastic bag I had carefully encased the reviver in had got holed. :( Jake was pretty shocked when I put it under a running tap to wash out the salt when we got home. This morning I brushed some IPA onto both PCBs to help dispel any remaining moisture and both reciver and servo have come back to life! Phew!
Thank you to Les for driving us down there and sorry that your sail design didn't work as hoped.
We are all looking forward to our next trip and start doing some serious racing! Hopefully Peter will have a radio so he can sail his own boat as it had to be returnd under warentee hence he borrowed my fishy boat.