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Steve called me and said he was taking a class out kayaking Sunday and did I want to go. I don’t think I have been kayaking in maybe years, and not much in the year and a half prior to that. I have spent all my time and energy sailing and working on my boats for the last few years. We went out on the Waccamaw River at Peachtree Landing.
I had a great time. I think I am going to find a roof rack for the new honda civic so that I can take a kayak on it when I want to go.
Anyway I took the old canon digital camera with me and took a bunch of pictures. Here are a few.. It was a beautiful day for being on the river.
We went out Saturday and raced. What a gorgeous day. We came in second on the first race and won the second race. There weren’t many of us out there but it was some tight racing. It was challenging on the starting line with some close maneuvering for advantage and rounding the pins/buoys during the race seemed to see us neck and neck there. The first race we were about 3 feet behind LC Marie come in across the finish line.
I got some pictures of LC Marie during the second race when she got frisky with a pin and it decided to go with her 🙂
I had the opportunity to work with a friend on his boat yesterday and I took the inline scale and a tachometer with me to test the performance of the engine in a static thrust test. We also did this with both the stock 8 pitch prop and a 6 pitch prop.
The tachometer is a Sendec unit good to 7000 rpm in 10 rpm increments.
The scale is a 3000 lb loadcell scale accurate to the nearest 1 lb increment.
I have been wanting to do this for a while as I have the same engine only marketed under the tohatsu brand and it has run weak since I got it. I had assumed that there were problems with my engine but based on the test results I think that there is a much larger issue.
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Went out on Pirate Girl today and sailed around for a bit. Wind was light and started dieing though so we ended up coming in early.. still it was a nice day on the water. Saw Runaway out on the water and Lee on his boat also
Patty Steering
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Jeff Being lazy 🙂
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Me steering on the way back in.
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I went out this past saturday and raced on la Bon Vie againn. This time the wind was pretty light and the smaller boats were able to keep up. 🙂 But it was a fun day sailing. We were supposed to have a hurricane coming ashore the next day but it ended up turning north and we had beautifull blue skies with light winds.
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I got to go sailing with Capt’n O on La BonVie his Beneteau Oceanus 39 in the race last week. It was a very good day sailing.
Flat seas with 8 to 12 knots of wind we moved right along. 1st in the first race and 2nd in the second race.
Breck on Runnaway had a great day.. he came in second and then first in the first and second races respectively. Cleaning the bottom on his boat and getting the new fully battened main really have made a difference in his boats speed and pointing ability.
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