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Sailing on Walkabout

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.

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November 15th, 2006 | Category: Boating, Logged Days on Boat | Leave a comment

2006 November 15th on Pirate Girl

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!!

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November 15th, 2006 | Category: Boating, Logged Days on Boat, patty | Leave a comment