Yeah I'm hooked.

I'm going to save up the money over the winter, and buy the boat hopefully sometime in early spring. I'm ready to make the step into the tornado world after my experience.

We launched, and immediately started heading out to the mouth of the river. We launched the chute (which, I have to say, the launching and retrieval system is truely ingenious) and headed down a bit. Kevin let me take the tiller... it was pretty amazing what a balanced, tuned boat feels like. I was perfectly comfortable driving the boat with the chute up, even though it was my first time doing so on any catamaran. Even in 8 knots of breeze we had the wild thing going on.

Unfortunately, the wind died on the way back, but that gave Kevin and I an opportunity to talk shop, which is always enjoyable when you're talking to a guy that has the unique talents of Kevin :P

We broke down the boat for the season, and put it on the tilt trailer at about 8pm. It was pretty impressive how the trailer worked, definitely going to have to get one of those.

All in all, a very delightful experience. I'm sold on the boat, and I just got my first full-time job yesterday, so by spring, I'll be in a position to buy the carbon boat. I'm thinking about keeping it up in MD and racing it around there with/against Kevin so I can pick up on his tricks and so forth, get some tutiledge.