Some wind for Ellen

Last weekend we had some wind.  The boat handled very well with a single reef in the sail.  The horizontal reef in a sliding gunter doesn't seem to be that well known.  Usually the complaint is that you can't keep the gunter up tight against the mast once the sail has been lowered to take the reef in, but the way I have it set up seems to work well. Later I will post some images on how this works.  For now, here is some video:

Skip to the finish...

Well, numerous other projects overtook working on the Ellen and the hull sat untouched for about a year.  Finally I have found time to finish up and we launched today.   I did not keep up with the photo documentation of the build unfortunately, but I did get a few pictures at the launch.  We had very light winds so the sailing was a little frustrating at times, but the boat seems to behave very well both rowing and sailing.