Raising the sail.

Yesterday we rolled the boat to the front yard to raise the sail!

Tied the corners to the lug and boom, then figured out where to tie the downhaul on the boom.

It went up smoothly without too much effort.  But we hadn't made our handy belay pin yet, so we had to tie the halyard off to an eye bolt that the mast is lashed in with.  It was hard to hold the rope and tie off, so Daddy tied it off while I held the sail up.

Then we got the boom downhaul set.  This we also tied off to the eye bolt on the opposite side of the mast temporarily.  When the sail was fully raised, it seemed much too high, so we dropped it at least 6 inches, maybe more until the boom felt like it was at a comfortable level for captain and crew in the cockpit.  Then we were able to mark where we wanted to place a cleat on the mast where the downhaul will be tied off.  

I guess we could technically go sailing now.  Today we did the final drilling for rudder stock bolts, so we could steer.  I also started making a pin to hold the tiller in the rudder stock.