I need a roof rack now, to carry the full battens, and I should tape a flag on the back of the one that's as long as the car. Plus, feeling how stiff the new sail is, I don't see it coming down like a venetian blind. I imagine lowering a corrugated roof on a pole barn in a windstorm.

I have to re-install the new tack fitting that metal magician-Joel refitted by cutting and welding a new head on the bolt that now accomodates it.

Off to Hamilton Marine for pads eyes, thimbles, tiny blocks-etc, for the-not yet built-lazy jacks that I'm sure I'll need to ever manage the new sail. And cheek blocks for the transition from a roller furling boom to slab reefing. If you can't reef on the first sail, surely,... you will have to.

And then cleats. Reefing and lazy jacks. I'm making some out of wood for the little mizzen boom(outhaul and mizzen staysail sheet, that I finally took down to bare wood(a 10 year deferred project). I may as well make a couple wood cleats for the slab reefing as well. But wood would be too fragile for the tiny 1/4" lazy jack cleats(snapped off during storage no doubt). Back to Hamilton for small cleats,...

And while the mizzen boom is getting a varnish build, should I re-install the bronze boom track? I'm loose footed on the new main. A lot less work to just remove the slides on the mizzen sails foot. The foot always bound up on the mizzen anyway, now I'll have better shape control on the sail that does nothing much, anyway.

While I'm at it, I better put that little sail in the bath tub with some bleach, it looks grey compared to the new sail. And then I have a bottom to paint, rain forecast tomorrow,...