Quick! Someone call Judy Garland ...
Now that the mast is up, the standing rigging connected and tuned, the running rigging attached and the sails hung, it was time to go sailing. Today was as good a day in January as I was going to find to get out on the water: no rain, sunny, calm seas and light wind. I double checked the halyards, sheets, put a cautionary reef in the mainsail and shoved off single-handed. Although the temperature was not ideal, it was lovely being out on the water again, listening to the wind push a two ton vessel through the water. As I approached the south end of Lake Washington, this appeared: I found the end of the rainbow; someone notify Dorothy and Toto! When I got back to the marina, I hooked up the running backstay and attached the yard-spar to the T-track battcar with the new oversized soft shackles I had previously fabricated. Everything worked as expected. Now that the yard-spar can be hoisted above the spreaders, it can be yawed at a greater angle to port and starboard; this will in