Last season, it was very nice sailing in Ruissalo. Boat was just got ready for delivery sailing, and ofcourse it has to be tested before real sailing to Espoo. This was very nice testdrive.
Around the isle
We where all day making boat ready for sailing. We put the mast on it´s place and rigged the mast. Raimo did climb up to mast and put the windex on it´s place. It did look very difficult and stressful operation, but he did it very well. You can see the video here
Idea was to sail around the small isle “Iso-pukki” and then come back to harbour and pier. We where a bit more slow with getting ready and out for testing. During our delayed start, wind had build itself more up, and this was only good for testing the boat.
We left the pier with sail, wind was light but steady. We got almost 2 knots with main sail only and soon we took line out to the route and the same time wind start to blow with more power. Great feeling.. sails was filled and the speed accelerating
We got our speed very easy up to 5 knots and the sound from the prow was growing.
A few moment later, we got a gust and boat tilted. This was lasting a while and then we was again in normal condition. This was cool feeling, exciting.
The wind was growing and then suddenly, we got a hard gust and with all sails up, i was not fast enough, so we broached. This was so quickly escalated, that i had no time to say “a cat”.
This took about half minute and then we was back in the line and route again. Pffhh..
After this small accident, we adjusted sails more better for the current weather and we start to enjoy the ride with the wind. We had a good speed and boat was sailing steady. we sail around the isle Iso-pukki and went back to Härkälahti, where our pier was.
We come from behind the isle, and turn boat to route to harbor. We also took the front sail in, because wind was enough for main sail only.
Sailing at first time with MP27 was a huge experiment and very exciting. Boat was easy to sail and very logical to the wind. This boat is easy to learn to sail. Love my boat.
Finally, we took the sail down and let the boat float to its place. Speed was just about enough to get between and to its own place. Marvelous. Very nice end to the day.
MP27 is a great boat.
Sailing West wind 