She's Rigged!

Given the dramatic changes we made to the rig and sail plan, the most anxiously awaited day of the refit (for me, anyway) occurred this week when it came time to commission her new rig at Kittery Point Yacht Yard. Let's face it, this post could have gone either way.....but I'm relieved (actually, ecstatic!) to report it was a complete success! The crew at KPYY and Hall Spars did a superb, masterful job all the way around.

The stars of the show - left to right: Henry Maxwell, Project Manager, Hall Spars; Phil Garland, Hall Spars and John Glessner, GM of Kittery Point Yacht Yard

70' of carbon fiber 

Given that I'm somewhat dyslexic, not to mention far-sighted - and prone to transposing numbers, I never had 1000% confidence that maybe just one of the dozens of calculations that I took with Bob Eger using a transit and that were fed to Hall Spars for shroud length construction etc. might be, uhh...wrong! Bigger variables had my nerves frayed, including the fact that the mast itself was custom and changes made to the mast step, chain plates, carpentry, sail order, etc. etc. all came down to this step being successful. And it was.

WPB's Jonathon Van Camp (who built much of the interior) and friend, Don Porter look on

Launching is scheduled for high tide at 2200 on Monday, June 13th at KPYY.

KPYY's crew finds the hole with zero drama

Rig is fully commissioned

Henry and Phil installing the Harken furler. The new pulpit is courtesy  of Mike Dumas Welding and the bow  roller his collaboration with WPB