The final touches and rigging of the sail

It's now July 14th, 2012 and the 'Ashley Grey' is just weeks away from being launched. I spent considerable time adding hardware and varnish to the mast, boom and spar. I also fine tuned and fiber glassed the centerboard and refined the outer hull's paint job. I am happy with the off white color of the hull with the
sheer plank painted marine blue and the side molding and badges painted yellow. I painted the name of the boat towards the front, just behind the front badge in off white. I abandoned my original plan of putting the boat's name inside of the transom...who would see it? Most recently I 'bent' the lug sail onto the spar with lacing rope and attached the foot of the sail to the boom both fore and aft with lashings. It was a thrill to raise the sail for the first time and see the spar go to the correct angle and the jaws of the boom come up tight to the mast collar. The halliard was rigged so that it went through the  sheave at the top of the mast went back to a block lashed to the spar and then was wrapped around the mast and tied to the fore end of the spar. The aft part of the boom was rigged by placing a bridle on it with  a double  block attached to it. The main sheet, the line that controls the boom and, hence, the sail, had a single block attached by an eye splice at one end. The becket on this block was rigged to  a bridle, which was simply a line that was rigged across the top of the transom , with enough room for the tiller to emerge beneath beneath it. The mainsheet thus controlled the movement and position of the boom.