A great learning day, reaching, heaving-to and gaining experience.

My video's are quite ocndensed at the moment and it's because I am spending every minute of my time on Lulu the Lugger learning something new. In this video i'm probably reaching in the best wind i've had so far on Lulu and it makes for quite an exhilarating sail. I definitely learnt a lot about the boat today. There's a few jobs to do before weighing anchor and then we quickly find some good wind in which we have to heave-to in to get a few things sorted on the boat. She takes it in her stride and never once felt like capsizing. Averaging about 5.8 mph., we get home sooner than expected so there's time for some circuits, beam raching in a bumpy lake to test out how she feels in these conditions for the first time. You can see how everything just gets better every time I try it in on this sail. Hope you enjoy!! 00:00 Lunch 00:31 My first thoughts on the Mizzen Sail 04:09 Some things I need to change 07:19 Using my battery bilge pump 07:40 Tightening up the shrouds 08:28 Weighing anchor & moving off 10:15 Messing up Heaving-to!! 11:18 Raising the Mainsail 14:38 Heaving-to again to fix my Jib 15:50 Moving off again 16:40 A quick speed test 18:30 First Gybe of the day 19:21 Passing the weather station 20:34 "Crouching" Gybe!! 21:29 Beam reaching circuits 23:01 First tack of the day! 25:30 Sails packed and motoring home 26:07 Mooring up - attempt 1 26:50 Mooring up - attempt 2!! 28:02 Time to go.