Our little daysailer clone floats! Moreover, the little electric trolling motor is more than enough to get us from Truxton Park boat ramp, under the Spa Creek bridge, and out into the bay. The next outing will be a proper sea trial with spars and sails, and after that will rename her and give her a maiden voyage.
I wonder if they'll let us race a clone with the real daysailers at TESOD
Took a rainbow out for an evening sail. Mixed it up with the beer can fleets. Fun times!
Another lovely night on Specific Gravity
Another Sunday night in the books. With great crew, we did well, losing consistently to the Morrisons. We got all kinds of conditions - got and sunny, hot and cloudy, cool and rainy, 5kt gusting 7 to 14kt gusting more. We put a reef in for serving race then shook it out in the downwind leg, getting stuck due to mis-rigged reefing line and overstanding the downwind mark as we struggled to unstick the rigging and get our sail up.
We learned a ton, we had fun, everything else was gravy.
Wonderful evening on Harlequin, my first time on a Cal 25. Thanks, Leo!
While the oldest teaches kids on the Hobie cat, the mom, his brother, and I took out a rainbow. Summer is definitely here!
Distance race to R2 on in a moody fog. We had the Bay mostly to ourselves. Great night.
Had some friends in from out of town, took them out on the rainbow in the morning, and then ripped around the bay on the Hobie.
Another day of tiller time in the laser. Bigger breeze means I finally got to really hike. Also maneuvers were high stakes - I ate it three times: twice gybing, and once while blasting upwind, almost fully hiked, straight into the wind shadow of a j33 warning up for Wednesday night. That one got my fast and utterly by surprise, I was already hovering a foot above the water when BAM I'm in the drink. Probably an experience most laser people get well before their beards turn gray, but I can confirm it's just as exhilarating for this old man!
Tom the Precision 15 out for some virtual racing around government marks. I always learn a lot when I sail different boats.