But first there has to be a little drama.
When I arrived, at Silver Lake, NH, before I unloaded the gear, I wanted to use the trunk space to take the electronics cover off of the Dragonforce 65 and bind the reciever, following my transmitter debacle of the other day. All went fine, stuffed everything back in the compartment and sealed it. Loaded all the gear in the trailer, hauled it a quarter mile into the state park to my spot and got set up. Radio on, turned on the DF65, and nothing. From the car to my spot...
Reopened the compartment turns out the battery lead came out when I stuffed it all back in. Easy fix, all good to go!
The winds were not consistent but the speed was good and no bad gusts. The sun came out, I was in a t-shirt and my waders. Life is good. Its like that one perfect golf swing when you about to quit. You are suddenly reminded why you do this.
The Jonesway Dragonforce 65 is my first sailboat, and it is simply the best. Its bigger brother is the Dragonflite 95. If it sails half is well I would love one, but it is rather expensive, so I will likely never own one. Both of these are class racing boats and my DF65 is qualifying (there is a club in Nashua. NH, but they meet ON Saturdays, and I am usually working; someday. I updated the sails and hull art with the craftsmanship of @Start1969 Italy. I love this little speeder and it sailed well today.
Changed to the Volantex Hurricane 1m racer. This is a recreational boat, not a class racer. I modified it by installing an external power switch. The switch is nice, waterproof, but hard to tell when its on or off (flushed is on, raised is off, but raised is 1 mm). I must have left it on last time as I drained the LiFe battery and had to NiMH cheat to recharge it. Once charged I bound it and set it away. That was two days ago.
Today I turn it on, and nada, opened it up, everything looks good. Decided to rebind and voila, problem solved. But curiously failed to bind twice. Is it the reciever or my iX12? More on that later (related to my Alpha Sport and its reciever, same make). This reciever has been quite reliable.
It continued to work fine, even after swapping boats back and forth. She is not much of a sailor, but is pretty on the water. I think a quality set of sails would changeover the water and when underway. The main has too much sail at the top causing quite a twist under all conditions,, and it can't be made tighter with rigging.
Everything settled down and I simply enjoyed the sun, water, and the boats.
At home, relaxing, last 2 says of my 10 day staycay, waiting for a replacement reciever. That's likely my next story.
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