It seems all the rigging is done and ready

Minus our yankee, which still needs to be connected to the furler, we should be ready to take our fine ship out of the slip, hoist our sails, and let the wind move us around.

I got off the phone with Fritz at Pacific Offshore Rigging on Tuesday, and he gave us the green light for everything but ocean passages. Only cautioning us on that one that he'd like us to put on new turnbuckles before we head out into the great blue yonder.

The plan now is to hoist all the sails in the early morning (and therefore windless) hours, and make sure there are no chaffe points, and all the sail controls look good. I think I'll have a notebook with me looking for flaps and flutters once we go out under sail, so I can go back into my Annapolis Book of Seamanship later in the evening and do some homework on how to solve those problems.