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I ran some tethers and misc stuff up while dog sitting for patty this weekend. The tethers came out really nice. I also worked on remounting the radio on sea puppy. It was just bolted to the side of the chart table area. I have now flush mounted it. I is a much cleaner and out of the way install. I went out on Angela’s boat Valkyr for the parade this year. We put a generator on the fordeck to run the lights. 🙂 not to bad for weight.. two of use were able to lift it on the boat without difficulty. Anyway here are some pictures of parade and everyone on the boat. Someone grabbed my camera and I actually got pictures taken of me. Here is me and Angela. This boat actually won the regatta.. 1500 dollar prize!!! nice.. Solo on Sea Puppy again. I agreed to meet Patty on Pirate Girl so that we could get some pictures of each others boats on the water. 🙂 Patty took some great pictures of me being a goof on Sea Puppy I got a few pictures of Pirate Girl also for Patty The banquet was nice this year.. we didn’t do much business as a lot of people didn’t make it, but we had good food and some great company. I took a few pictures so without much ado here are a few of them.. for anyone that wants to see them all just click on this link here . The whole gang!!! Susan and Ben It was a race day today but only me and Ben showed up to race. Ben took out his new boat, Winds of Freedom, a Beneteau F36.7. Well regardless of the rest of the slackers in the sailing club we went out. Ben with his 6 or 7 crew persons and me all by my lonesome. I tried to convince him to loan me some crew but he’s as hard hearted a pirate as ever lived 🙂 He went and topped off fuel or some such and I headed out for the Inlet. I hung out till he got there and then we headed for the Sherman, a wreck about 6 miles offshore. I went out with Patty and Hans on Pirate Girl today.. Pirate Girl really is just a slightly bigger Sea Puppy.. It’s like sailing a 33 ft dingy.. A very nice dingy I will grant you 🙂 We beam reached out from the inlet for about 5 miles and then back. For most of that time the boat was so balanced that you didn’t have to touch the helm but once every few minutes. It was a nice mellow sail with plenty of time for talking and just watching the water slide by. Patty dropped her second radio in the water yesterday. I put fins and a mask on and went looking for it today but it must be one of the lighter ones that the current could drag off. She dropped it in about 9 ft of water so it should have been right there. I spent about 10 minutes doing sweeps under her boat and the dock but did not find it. At about 10 minutes in the water it went from burning cold to starting to feel warmer 🙂 so I knew my time in the water was up. Full on hypothermia is not a good thing to get so i popped out and got dry and then slugged back a big mug of hot apple cider. I was right as rain in just a couple minutes after that. I also put one of those hand warmers in my shoe, that helped my body warm back up also. I got to go out on Jay’s Jenneau 43 “Walkabout” today.. What a sweet boat!! We had about 2 1/2 foot swells with 8 to 12 kts of wind and she pretty much sailed half to a little better than half of apparent wind speed through that range. Walkabout is probably one of the largest sailboats I’ve sailed on to date and the motion is quite a bit different. A much slower motion. Though I didn’t get green, I could feel the potential for it early on in the day. After a while I shook it and felt fine though. After a rocky start getting out of the slip 🙂 ( there was a really wicked current and wind both blowing Pirate Girl torward the dock and pilings where she ties up.) we motored out to the inlet and had a nice sail. No crazyness just smooth sailing. We had a beam reach on a heading of 180 out of the inlet and ran out about 6nm before turning around and beam reaching back in. Coming back into the dock we had current and wind pushing us around but Patty backed us in perfectly the first time. Nice job!! Went out on Angela’s Valkyr (a cutter rigged Down East 38) yesterday. In winds from 8 knots to about 14 knots she seemed to hit about half of apparent wind speed. Seas were running from 2.5 to maybe 3 feet and she rode over them with no problem and was dry both in the cockpit and up on the bow. Sail handling on Valkyr wasn’t as bad as I had thought it would be. the main once it was up a few feet went up hand over hand as fast as I could pull it up. The stay sail went up even easier.. The jib was the only sail that didn’t set real easy. It still has a lot of resistance to unfurling off the roller furling. It went on easier than coming off and even going on wasn’t as easy as I think it should be. Here are some images of it installed on starboard. I went out by myself today… It was a race day on the club scheadule but me and Patty are the only ones that showed up to the captains meeting. Oh well.. we both went out and since we had two boats we tried to see who could go faster 🙂 so I guess we raced. 🙂 there is some argument as to wether she won once and I won once or wether we raced in seperate divisions (racing and cruising) so both won. 🙂 I think since her PHRF is 140 or so that she is in racing and I’m in crusing at 194 or so 🙂 We had a great time. With north winds around 15 gusting to maybe 20 and 3 ft seas it was a beautifull blue sky day. After sailing we went back and tied up at Poo’s and got a bite to eat. Mostly because there was only 3.8 ft of water in Pattys marina and she had to wait for the tide to come back in a bit before she could get into her slip. |
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