Quick trip out yesterday afternoon. The UV cover on Baffin’s head sail needs some work, so I wanted to take it off and put on the spare genoa. Rather than do it in the slip, I went out, mild winds, changed the sail on the water and tested it out. […]
I am keen to gain more experience. These little outings each night are not far, but each trip is more experience in and out of the slip, up and down with the halyard and lazy jacks. Rolling up the genoa etc. Last night the weather wasn’t looking good, quite gloomy, […]
Tenth sail of the season today. I am not including sailing on other boats. So the Cleveland trip isn’t counted. Decent wind, 10-15 knots from the west southwest and my route was right into it. Only goal was to head upwind and practice tacking and pointing. Learned a few lessons: […]
When I returned from my round the island sail two weeks ago, I noticed I had broken the top sail slide. Not a big deal, but the head of the sail has a metal plate and the slide doesnt attach the same way as the other slides. I was puzzled […]
For the last 5 years I have been doing an annual sailing weekend with the same group of friends. This year our plan was a shakedown cruise for the recently purchased boat of a member of the group. I was sending regular updates to the shore crew (spouses). The collected reports and a […]
The sailing season started 2016-05-03 when Baffin was launched. The first sail though didn’t happen until 2016-05-22. I set myself a goal of going out 35 times this season. There were only 23 weeks left, so that worked out to three times every two weeks. Manageable. As of today, […]
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