Finally got the boat put back together and sailing again on the weekend at Lake Cootharaba's season opening regatta.

For anyone that is interested, the key to bolting the mainsheet track on is to have a spanner that keeps the nut level. First side took about 2 hours to do until we figured that out, second side took about 20 mins (We bent the end of cheap spanner to get the head level). We kept the washers on the nuts with super glue and put duralac on the washers. All held together well.

Regatta was well attended by cats, dinghies and trailer sailers. We seemed to do alright in the last two races (missed the first race because of putting boat back together). Not sure if it was changed after I checked but the provisional results had me as 3rd and 1st on handicap in those races. Will try to get the race times because I wasn't convinced we did that well in the first race. Second race wasn't a surprise because we had a blinder first lap.

As some of you may be aware, I have a square head main on my boat. We noted this on the entry form as required but handicap wasn't modified on provisional results. Will probably get it dropped a minute or so in future regattas so ppl don't get their panties in a bunch. Will consider running off pure F16 handicap as soon as I get a kite, shouldn't be too far off the pace with practice.

At this point in time, with preliminary results, the square head main seems to be quicker, as probably expected by most ppl. Would love to have some other mozzies to race against now.

PS. Speaking of panties in a bunch, what trapeze harnesses are ppl using, I cannot find one that's comfortable. I even forked out for a good magic marine one but it would cut circulation off to my legs when I sat down, left some fairly serious bruising after a days sailing. Probably just need to spend more time sorting out the straps.