The Princess got its hull wet for the first time just before lock down occurred here, it had waited patiently in dry dock for many years. Two of my grand kids were coming to visit us down south for 4 days and my grandson wanted a power boat and yacht to play with. As usual it was a last minute rush to get them sorted. The Princess was quickly outfitted with no thought of waterproofing apart from mounting the Rx up high. My grandson got the first skippering of it and I told him to back off a bit on the turns. Not the thing to say, I based it on my previous experience with a power boat, a tunnel hull which you had to back off on the turns or risk flipping it. Not so in the case of the Princess, when you backed off the throttle it lost steering as the small rudder lost authority as the speed decreased and the waves took over. My error and proved a bit expensive but he enjoyed himself so life was good. As you can see in the video there was plenty of opportunities for water to get in, especially so when the screws holding the top hatch on vibrated out and the hatch came off.
Unfortunately the weather was not great when they were down so we only got this run in on the last day they were down with us. And after that run it was history.
A couple of days later the weather was perfect and it would have gone really well. Tried the yacht but the wind decided to back off and got some great footage of it bobbing up and down on the slight swell but going no where.
No problem I thought when we get back I will take it up the lake to give it its first sail but as we all know that is on hold for some time yet.
Hope everyone is well and hopefully a sailing video in the future.