For the last few months I have been hankering for a sailing boat of some description. Something which was small enough to handle on my own but large enough to be comfortable and could take crew if they wanted to come along. The Hawk 20 seemed to fit the bill, and one was going to be available soon.
My good friend Maison tried to convince me that this wasn't the only boat on the ocean and maybe something with a cabin would be more appropriate.
As usual I wanted instant satisfaction of some sort and wouldn't be swayed unless something was desperately wrong with it.
Finally in Mar 2010, a Hawk 20 did indeed become available.
Mr Webster helped me check it over and pick it up from Bovisand on Sat 13th Mar 2010. There were a few things we noticed but nothing major. Either they didn't exist or we missed them. The original plan was for me to get it launched at MBC in the afternoon and go for a good test sail.
Thankfully Mr Lerigo was on hand to help me out. As he's the bosun at MBC and has dealt with their Hawks for a number of years now he's the ideal dude to turn to. As we went over the boat, and discovered various things which needed doing, we decided that it would be best to test sail it on the Sunday morning, as there would be safety cover for the Laser series, available in case anything went wrong.
Simon, Gill and Fin were down for the weekend so we broke for lunch at the Mountbatten pub.
Sunday morning came around and I was up early. Took me a little while to rig up but I was soon ready to go.
Mr Lerigo helped me launch. The weather wasn't too bad in the morning. Not a lot of sunshine and not a lot of wind. I wasn't planning on staying out too long, as the safety cover would disappear at about noon. It was just to be long enough to see if anything was obviously wrong.
Thankfully I couldn't see anything immediately obvious and considered it a success.
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