Sagitta's first sail in 2024

It's been a while since I last posted, but here is a short video of Sagitta's first sail of 2024. The forecast was for sun and light winds, we were also promised a warm day. In the event only the "sun" part was correct. The wind was 15-18 knots when we started sailing, but slowly moderated during the afternoon.
And it was cold, too cold for Jetti, who stayed in the cabin all day. (When we got home we checked last year's logbook, our first sail in 2023 was nearly a month later and it was also cold). Buying diesel for the central heating is now top of the "to do" list!
You will see that, despite sailing at 8 knots+, Sagitta will steer itself for long periods. The "portrait" video was taken by Henry, sailing with friends on a Plymouth University J80 and shows Sagitta's new colour scheme, now back to almost the same colours as it was when first launched, back in 1991.
More Sagitta videos to come during the year!
You can see more on Sagitta here www.sailingcat...
(as always, no audio on my short videos)

[@soggybottom3463]

Such sweet proportions. She's still a very pretty vessel Mr W. 👍

[@davidlaw899]

She looks amazing Richard happy sailing.