Flying a spinnaker as a cruising chute we had a great day undersail as the southerly breezes built.
After three weeks aboard with all our autumn sunshine and fair weather sailing behind us Catherine and I are enjoying being reefed down with 20 knots of following breeze and sailing at 6+ knots of boat speed for hours at a time on while homeward bound
Tis all manual with 100' of chain and a 22# claw as AQUILA'S main anchor. We carry a large Fortress storm anchor with another 100' of chain and lots of rope rode.
Flying a spinnaker as a cruising chute we had a great day undersail as the southerly breezes built.
Anchored at Big Horn beach in the Basalt Reach of Lake Roosevelt off the Colville Indian Reservation.
Catherine at the helm as AQUILA cruises past Hell Gate Island named after the radids 300' feet below us under the impounded waters behind Grand Coulee Dam.
Buddy boat skipper sitting on the foredeck of BLUE HERRON, a Kent Ranger 26, watching the Big Horn sheep in a nearby cliff side in the Palisades Beach anchorage, Lake Roosevelt.
Yours truly, skipper and owner of AQUILA, an S2 9.2C.
Foster Fanning

Flying a spinnaker as a cruising chute we had a great day undersail as the southerly breezes built.

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