Karma is all ready to head up to Long Beach for Long Beach Race Week 2008. As mentioned before, we did have some repairs that needed to be done to the boat. As you can see, the old pig-tail, which holds the mast up and is used to adjust our mast rake (fore and aft adjustment) is rusted and is actually cracked at the fitting. We also replaced the cleat that holds up the spin halyard and shoved something into the middle of the halyard to make it thicker in the cleat area.
That second photo shows the thicker part on the left side there, not sure if it will turn out okay in the photo, but hopefully it will work okay this weekend.
Also, due to the keel having been damaged AGAIN during a tow (this is getting ridiculous) we have changed the way we shove foam around the keel. Hopefully this will work better.
That is about it for us, some small clean up and then the normal boat prep tomorrow night, and then off to the races Friday. Wish us luck and you should be able to follow along from the Long Beach Race Week website.
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