[quote=bacho]Finally got it out on the water yesterday for about 5 hours. Wind forecast was 10-20 with gust possible of 28. Took about an hour to rig the boat, much of that was spent trying to add about 6 more feet of retrieval line to my spin halyard which ended up being too short. I was pretty pleased that it only took one hour. Once my crew is trained on rigging I expect it can be much faster.
Finally got it on the water and the wind was dead, I could see it moving on the other side of the lake, so we slowly made our way out to the bigger water. When we finally make it, the wind suddenly gave us a puff from the other direction and capsized us as I had been trapping to adjust the trap wires. I found the N20 being VERY easy to right compared to my H18. It popped right back up and we were on our way again. Just a little cold now. For the next hour the wind was pretty dead. I spied a pair of keel boats across the lake so we slowly worked our way to them. By the time we got there the wind was up to 6-8 and we started moving pretty good. When the wind picked up to create some white caps I really began to love the boat. I found it very responsive to my inputs so I could quickly tell if I was doing the right thing or not. Flying the hull was extremely smooth, it was quite fun. As powerful as the boat is, it never even came close to feeling like too much. It was as smooth as could be, and easily powered down nicely when it came time to return to the ramp.
Take down took about an hour again, much of that was spent pulling the boat up a very long ramp with some beach wheels in dire need of an overhaul.[/quote]
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