Sea Casa Gets New Rigging

my friend Connor owns and lives on Sea Casa, his Hunter 31 that he has been preparing for a long open-ended sail down to Panama and East to Florida. For over a year since he made his decision he has been taking on all the precautionary and maintenance projects that this sailboat could ever need. the other weekend he sailed to MDR to a more reputable boat yard for a set of all new standing rigging. Because he's a liveaboard he had to get it back to Redondo while the yard worked on the rigging. I tagged along for a mast-less motor on a weeknight. Weather was great considering the night before was the thunderstorm and the seastate was comfortable enough to make it pretty easy. It made me want to go night sailing. 

A week later he texted me to see if I'd be available for a night sail and I was. The wind was light enough around 6-8 knots so he hoisted up the asymmetrical spinnaker while I handled the lines and steering. We went from 1 knot to 4.5-5 in the light wind.