Wind (WNW)was gusting to 11-12 a lot, and the headers were tricky to deal with. Jibed down a little past anchorage and decided it was switching up too much to try POBs and tacked back to DSC, then spent half an hour worrying about getting the main to come down quickly(the jib was a challenge) so did a bunch of drive bys and practice sheeting out and slowly turning up to see how much time I would have to drop it. Eventually I went for it and was fine. Panicked at the last second though b/c was picking up speed (not that much, should have either turned back up earlier or just stepped off and hold on tight) so did another turn but couldn't get all the way around and had to turn back, was too close, it was awkward but slow enough and landed on the fender. Sadly not as elegant as I would like. Not too bad though.
Century Club: Rebekah Bromwell
Went to check the tablet clip on akimbo that arrived this morning, and it looks good so that was cool. Then it was so warm and beautiful, and very very light wind that I felt fine asking to take a J out myself and got the thumbs up. The wind was REALLY quite awful and constantly just cut out completely, PLUS it kept fluctuating direction wildly, like complete 180s very frequently. After about 3 hrs I gave up and headed in to dock, and had to bail the first time because the wind shifted from downwind to upwind/crosswind pushing off the dock, but the second time it shifted back to NW and I did a BEAUTIFUL slow downwind drift and I looked so smooth. It was very cool. I found that rolling the main by myself is no problem, but the jib is kind of a pita.
Took SD out for a short, heavily reefed (jib only) little adventure out to the fort and back and forth a bit, then home. Just an hour or so but lots of fun shaking the cleaner up and then pumping it out. Beautiful sporty day, 60ish, mid teens pegged w/Alberts digital anemometer but definitely a few gustier bits.
Took #4 out for the first time this season. HATE the jib snaps. Must have forgotten about those. Weather was semi overcast but warm, wind was 5-10 mostly E but a little fluctuation to S sometimes. Sailed about 3.5hrs and then went to the weather seminar which was great.
Went down to troubleshoot reported beeping, unable to recreate the problem. Thought we might as well change the belts and fuel filter, but got thwarted by the alternator not moving enough to get the belt off, and then couldn't put it back right because screw was stripping. Really really glad Tom was there or I'm sure I would not have even figured out what the problem was. Took it offline until Tom can get a new screw, but we still need to change the belts and stuff. I think we have the right v belt but the other one looks too long and now I can't remember how we decided that was the right part number so I'm re-researching. It's fine. We'll get it fixed up. I'm certainly learning stuff. :-)
Overcast, low 40s, 5-10 E, met Bhavani and did a little practice warm up for an hour, then dropped her with Richard and did the full race to the red in the ft mchenry channel. Crossed the finish like at 109 minutes. We made up for a slight delay at the start by careful sail tuning and took a strong lead by the turning basin. It was tremendous fun.
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Overcast and cool (low 40s) and very low flakey wind so we just puttered around single handing for a couple of hours but it wasn't really too productive. Then helped Josh move some boats around and also got to splash #2 with the lift! No propulsion so we got on and rocked it around the docks over to its spot.
Overcast low 40sF, NE wind @ ≈5-8ish but it tapered off and made it slow to get back to dock, and the wind shadows by dominos were annoying as usual. Had a good interview/practice, feel loads more confidant about actually taking people out now and can start taking lesson shifts! Woot. Also did a little bit of warm up with Albert before his turn. ≈2 hrs
60ish, sunny, 5-10 E, just lovely. Wind was a little patchy at the end but still ok for docking. Last couple POBs by dominos were bleh though. Tom did a checkout refresher and I did POBs and docking practice for my teaching interview.
Another beautiful sunny day 5-7ish E wind, less fluctuations than yesterday so I got some good figure 8s in. About 3.5hrs. Took #5 which I like better than #6 for the job cleats, but the main sheet keeps slipping so you have to hold it under tension all the time. :-/ Also the main has a bolt rope so probably kind of a pain to SH.