Another eventful day. I could do with a little boredom right now. We weighed anchor in Atlantic Highlands at 9:45 am and headed over to the fuel dock to add water to our water tank and top off the fuel. We brought up the anchor without any trouble. I was at the helm and George was operating the winch. Suky was coaching us both. George thought the entire anchoring procedure (dropping it and bringing it up) was much easier than expected. He was able to rinse the anchor and the chain with our salt water deck wash. I was at the helm when we pulled into the fuel dock and was able to do it without crashing the boat. Hooray! The young men at the fuel dock were nice enough to let us fill up the 80 gallon water tank and wash the salt water off the boat without charge. Next, we left the harbor, raised the mainsail and practiced reefing the sail. As we began raising the sail Suki noticed that the halyard was not attached to the sail. The locking shackle did not appear to lock. George used a shor...