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With due deference to thousands of years of nautical lore I dips me lid to the mariner past and give myself over to the golden rule of practical experience.
So I am, therefore, hoping for the best.
Each time I tackle the rigging of my humble craft so that it can be better prepared to harnesses wind in a forward direction I am contained (and reminded) by my own weather experience upon the shallow waters of Deception Bay.
Will my rig hold together? Will my rig move the craft and its shipmate forward -- rather than under or apart?
I may have my ingredients on hand but when you start making the all togethers the scheme in your head -- my head that is -- doesn't always work as intended.
I always have to wonder: will this work with a 15 knot breeze bashing it from the south east?
The good news is that I can grab the mast -- that's the diagonal thingee in the front (it is a diagonal mast) -- and easily pivot the hull below it around, every which way but pull it forward so that it dives into the grass below it.
That must be good -- great! if I was a sailor on a sea of grass.
