Rebuilding

The team is back to work on the Bella Mente getting her back to racing shape.The list of mods before Transpac is a large one, not counting the new rig being built for the boat. Brad Fitzgerald is doing a good amount of boat building for us while we try and focus on the new rig and improving the systems. I can’t go into full detail yet of our upgrades since there is still time for the competition to respond. We have also been doing a little experimenting.There had been a bit of a debate about the best way to build soft pad eyes. So to solve the argument, all those with opinions built their version. We had 6 entries: AC boat captain (Mickey), Thomas, French 2 (Francois), JV, and Nipper with 2 entries.We hooked the truck up, load cell, and a dead end point, and pulled.The most disappointing result broke at 110 pounds. Our winner was Francois at just over 1000 pounds! Nice work.