Beautiful afternoon in the high 60's with SE breeze of 5-8 knots. Rigged and hoisted spin by myself and successfully jibed. Tried jibing again but got fouled up - turned before sheet was all the way out. Undid the problem and doused spin. Success!
Century Club: Richard Turman
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
8 knots from the south. Decent start, though pinned by another boat for a while. Made it to windward mark in decent time, took a while to get spin up due to loose tack line, but once up, pulled away from those behind and made some progress on those ahead. Came in 3rd out of 9 on corrected time.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
10 knots from the south.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 to Thursday, April 16, 2026
Number of days:
3 days
Sailed Tuesday with a friend who had never sailed before. Had great time in 5-8 knots Weds with sailing buddy. Put the spin up! Wednesday with Tuesday friend and her husband. 10 knots. Good times.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Blustery wind, ranging from 10 knots apparent to 20, and could not raise the mainsail all the way. Main was reefed, but could not raise enough to hold the main taut. Very frustrating. Tried for 30 minutes in various nearby places where I could put the boat in the lee of the wind without running aground. Finally gave up and took main down and took the genoa out. Went 4 knots genny only, and that was fine.
Went out two days later to assess, and found that top two Harken battcars, which hold the headboard to the mast track, did not have all the Torlon ball bearings they're supposed to (53 out of 80. Supposed to be 20 each; had 19, 10, 12, and 12), and we're hoping that is the problem. Other possibility is that the track itself is out of alignment. Sure hope not. Ordered replacement ball bearings from Harken; hopefully will be able to figure out how to get them into the battcar and that once I re-assemble them on the mast that the problem is solved. We'll see.
Friday, March 20, 2026 to Saturday, March 21, 2026
Number of days:
2 days
Took Lark out on Friday with a buddy; reefed the main and rolled the genoa out only to ~100%. Worked well and kept us on our feet in 14 knots sustained with gusts to 21. Enough wind to take us around the island and back home all within two hours.
Joined Winsome Ride for a daysail and had a wonderful time. Put main and genoa on their furlers, which took some time with all the battens, and then only had light winds in Round Bay until after 45 minutes the wind picked up and we had 12-14 sustained. Glorious Saturday sail!
Sunday, March 8, 2026 to Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Number of days:
3 days
Sailing three days straight! By myself the first two days. 8 knots sustained first day. 12 knots the second day. 14 knots the third. Great I had two crew with me!
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
55 degrees and most, but not all, of the ice is finally gone. Could get past the Herald Harbor boat ramp today, which I couldn't yesterday, so that's progress. Ran into a sailing buddy also out on his kayak so we had a companionable time kayaking across the Severn and back. Felt like a cool fall day.
Friday, February 20, 2026
Number of days:
0 days
High 40's were enough to entice me outside. Could go much further than Tuesday, since the ice had melted all the way to the boat ramp.