Despite the luxury of being based practically at the site of the regatta for both the Chestertown and Rock Hall regattas, Silver Heel is almost exclusively a Saturday morning rigging crew. Chalk it up to laziness, lack of numbers, or the attraction of the pool, but we rarely make it out the dock to rig the masts on Friday evening.
A way better sight on Saturday morning than when the mast is horizontal.
Which made this Friday evening an exception. With our resident Chairman of the Boards Joe Adams having built a nifty brace to rest the foremast on while slotting the base into the pin (something we’d seen used on a few other boats, admittedly), raising the billion pound fore is a lot less of a pain this year, so we were feeling pretty ambitious this evening. With the sun sinking fast on an ideal Eastern Shore July evening, we mustered enough crew to get both sticks up in a matter of minutes. This was going to make Saturday morning way more pleasant, as we weren’t going to be greeted with the fore first thing after waking up. We lay the main across the hull, satisfied to wait until the morning for the much easier mast, and made the Heel fast to our bitchin’ tender, Yetsgo.
Tags: Chestertown, Rigging, Yetsgo
