Great sailing evening!

I went out on the lake this evening and spent the whole time with trimming exercises. I locked the tiller centered, and sailed in big 2 mile long figure 8s by sail trim alone. It's my favorite boat exercise.

antiantiamericans wrote:I went out on the lake this evening and spent the whole time with trimming exercises. I locked the tiller centered, and sailed in big 2 mile long figure 8s by sail trim alone. It's my favorite boat exercise.

Love it!
What are you sailing?

Pictures, please!!!

Doc Trock wrote:Love it!
What are you sailing?

Right now we are sailing a Macgregor 26C. An absolutely wonderful boat, for what it is.

However, the Admiral has given the go-ahead for the retirement boat in two winters, so I'm keeping my eyes out for a nice Pearson 365 Ketch.



I just wish they had made a few of those 365s in a pilothouse model. You can get one or the other, but not both.



It's amazing what you can find right now on the islands of broken dreams
(Hawaii, Antigua, other "half way" islands where people dream of
sailing, buy more (or less) boat than they should have, get to the first big
passage landing, and say "Screw this, I'm flying home...")

My only big trouble will be getting it home, and I'm not going to
pay a delivery captain.

dsmbaptist wrote:Pictures, please!!!

My favorite picture...

Doc Trock wrote:

Serves them right for naming a boat that small "INTREPID".

antiantiamericans wrote:

Doc Trock wrote:

Serves them right for naming a boat that small "INTREPID".

A mere second or two after the top photo was taken:


The scary part is that I've sailed that close to Gray whales several times, and right here off our coast a man was killed a few years back by a whale who breached on his boat.

They're lucky that thing didn't take off the back of their boat.

Edited to add: Or mash them like bugs.

antiantiamericans wrote:They're lucky that thing didn't take off the back of their boat.

Edited to add: Or mash them like bugs.

It appears to be a steel, or aluminum hull.....very well made! I'd love to find out who the shipwright was.

Doc Trock wrote:

Ya wanna hear something weird? SND posted that same picture yesterday over at Coverts with a huge "FAIL!" caption over it!

Yeah, Yeah...I know...you could give a rat's butt what SND posts, but still..it's kinda weird that you posted the same picture as he did at almost the exact same time!

Psychic???

dsmbaptist wrote:

Doc Trock wrote:

Ya wanna hear something weird? SND posted that same picture yesterday over at Coverts with a huge "FAIL!" caption over it!

Yeah, Yeah...I know...you could give a rat's butt what SND posts, but still..it's kinda weird that you posted the same picture as he did at almost the exact same time!

Psychic???

Well, you got me.
I'm Starry Night Dave. I banned my "other" self on my own forum!

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, and I'm really Tatulip!