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Just me and Cary took Sea Puppy out sunday and it was a beautifull day.. the temperature was in the high 80’s and there was a nice breeze till late afternoon.. The seas were very low.. maybe 6 inchs to 1 foot of swell and just the cats paws that the wind rasied on the water.. We were one of the first boats out on the water. We got out and sailed about 2 miles from the inlet and then turned around to go mess with Breck in Runaway his Cabo Rico 38.
(ive been calling it a Cabo Rico 39 but he told me its actually a 38.. lol even though its 40+ over all including the bowsprit.. oh well boats are weird)
Well I got my mom and sister to come out with me to race. I also had Cary on board as crew… it started out as a great day. We got out on the ocean and the breeze was at about 10 knots. It was decided to do a leeward windward race to the sherman a wreck 6 miles away.. I got a great start and we poled out the 155 and just started shooting for the mark at about 4.5 knots… the only boats ahead of us were an S2 and Tarten 10 everyone else was falling behind 🙂
then disater… my sister started getting queasy….. 🙁 well she said she could tough it out so we kept going.. then my mom went below for a second to use the head… she enver made it that far.. she popped back into the cockpit saying that being below started to imeadiatly make her queasy to… then it went down hill till she was looking really grim…
I went out sailing on sea puppy today with Cary Huhr. The motor out and back in on the waterway was brutal. Against the tide both ways with the current running 2 knots. Then add in 4th of July traffic and crazys..
We actually ended up saving a jet skier that fell off his jet ski and was having problems getting back up on it or his girl friends jet ski. I saw him fall off and his jet ski was 20 yards away by the time he was even able to look away with the wind and current carrying it faster than he was able to follow. I throtled down just a knot or two and when it became obvious that he wasn’t going to be able to get on his girlfreinds jetski with her motored over and threw the ladder down and let him climb up on Sea Puppy.. Even though he had only been in the water for a couple minutes he was out of breath and we had to help him up the ladder.
We took Pirate Girl out today. Han’s his sister Lisi, Cary, Patty and me. It was a nice day sailing. Maybe 11 knots of wind and low seas. Everyone else was out also. 🙂 Jerry on LC Marie with Richard crewing, Orrin had La Bon Vie out, Diamond Girl was out and also Lickety Split.. Later as we were coming in we saw Achilies Heel anchored out at waities island.
The only excitement of the day was that we thought we had an engine problem at the end of the day..We started the engine and the warning buzzer stayed on and the voltage and oil pressure warning lights stayed on. We killed the engine and Patty went below to see if there was anything she could see on the engine that was obviously wrong. The wind was going pretty good and we were approaching the inlet so it was getting bouncy. I took in about 2/3 of the Jib and about half of the main.. (the main did not want to go into the mast again.. I took and put a little more tension on the main halyard and then pulled it all the way out before trying again and it went in then.
Ok so Patty starts talking shit to me after two glasses of wine.. I just want everyone to know that she forced me into this bet so that when I take her money no one thinks I took advantage… She hounded me for 10 minutes and even called me a sissy… so here are the three bets.
First bet was that Jeb bush would win the next election. Patty is convinced the fix is in and he will run and win.. So the bet is that she thinks he will be next president and I say he won’t. amount of bet $5.00
actually I doubt he will even run.
I finished running the wires for the GPS sounder.. The GPS antenna wire from the transom took a hole in the transom and then one in the bulkhead at the back of the chart table to run.
The cable from the Depth Sounder transducer took three holes through the galley cabinates to run beside the battery cables. I ended up mounting the transduce inside the boat just ahead of the older thru hull sending units for the depth finder and knot meter.. I just took 2 part epoxy and glued it down.. it seems to be working fine. Gives a very clear bottom line. 🙂 I need to read the manual a couple more times though to learn how to set all the options and use them.
After getting all the electrical system put back together and the GPS sounder installed I cleaned Sea Puppy out and then went sailing 🙂 Hans, Neylla, and Lisi, han’s sister went out with me…
Just an afternoon sail off the coast 🙂
Neylla and Lisi
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Hans
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