Wednesday Photo day again

[Ward H]

Here are my favorite sunset and sunrise photos from our winter cruise.

Friday Harbor Sunset

Mahalo awakens to Sunrise in Port of Kingston

 

[jssailem]

Very very Good Times. Ward.

 

[Ward H]

@jssailem Yes they were!

Here's another really cool moment from the trip.
San Juan Channel Sea Lions

 

[Mikem]

Love the flag!!!

 

[LeslieTroyer]

The seals are just off Shark Reef Park Park on Lopez Island. We took a detour to show John &Ward my Grandmas house on Outer Bay.

 

[All U Get]

For the rest of us!

 

[jssailem]

That looks like the Dark Side @All U Get .

 

[All U Get]

Maybe it’s George Costanza’s boat.

 

[jssailem]

Or Cramer's

 

[Justin_NSA]

Or Cramer's

Kramer had another name...

 

[jssailem]

Tomato tomat.

 

[PotomacDaysailer]

Tall Ship Lynx, one of my personal favorites, second to Pride II.

What a beauty she is and love the 1812 Star Spangled Banner flying from the gaff peak.

 

[PotomacDaysailer]

Tall Ship Lynx, one of my personal favorites, second to Pride II.

What point of sail is she on? I'm thinking a close reach, 5 points off the wind... Could she furl the square topsail, perhaps set a gaff foretopsail, and come up another point?

 

[Will Gilmore]

furl the square topsail, perhaps set a gaff foretopsail

Now we are really getting into sailboat nomenclature

(Edit: and that's the simpler drawing)
-Will (Dragonfly)

 

[PotomacDaysailer]

Adding the sails to the above, on each mast from bottom to top: course, tops'l (sometimes divided into lower and upper), t'gallant sail (sometimes lower and upper), royal, skysail, moonraker. Rigged on booms outboard of these sails are corresponding studding- or stu'ns'ls. Headsails working forward from the foremast: fore staysail, inner jib, outer jib, flying jib, spindle jib, jib of jibs. Plus staysails between the masts, named for their stay. The fore-and-aft rigged sails set aft of the mizzen (or jigger mast of a 4-master) are the spanker and gaff sail or gaff tops'l.

 

[All U Get]

Don't know the name of the sail, but there is a line chaffing it.

 

[Simon Sexton]

Could she furl the square topsail, perhaps set a gaff foretopsail, and come up another point?

That depends entirely on her design and the amount of wind. In the photo, it looks like you could be very correct; those adjustments would allow her to gain more speed by sailing flatter, but why be fast when you're just there to look pretty?

 

[PotomacDaysailer]

Don't know the name of the sail, but there is a line chaffing it.

Yes. I was going to say main topmast staysail but on closer inspection it doesn't seem to be set on a stay. The line is the lee fore topsail brace, I think.

 

[PotomacDaysailer]

That depends entirely on her design and the amount of wind. In the photo, it looks like you could be very correct; those adjustments would allow her to gain more speed by sailing flatter, but why be fast when you're just there to look pretty?

I was thinking closer to the wind, not necessarily faster.