A little sailing video

[DannyS]

So, this was just a week ago. Sailing from Bayfield, WI to Grand Marais, MN. 60 miles, across Lake Superior in mid-June. It's almost summer and I was bundled up with layers of fleece, foul weather gear, and wool gloves, 45 degrees on the open water and it was glorious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAsr0QRzLaA

 

[Sefuller]

Where's the jib sheet?

 

[Jackdaw]

Nice. You look TOTALLY ready for Race Week! ;^)

 

[Joe]

I like it.

 

[DannyS]

Where's the jib sheet?

Single tack all the way, no need for the lazy sheet.

 

[DannyS]

Yup Jackdaw, I am the epitome of the "cruising class".

 

[bawlmer]

Excellent. I need to catch some wind like that.

 

[Chief RA]

Danny: Where did you get the stern unit for lifting stern of dinghy? Nice boat and good outing! Chief

 

[DannyS]

Chief, I bought it used (and incomplete) from a craiglist type website up in Canada. Our boat is pretty narrow and cluttered with other stuff like the radar tower which makes davits not such a good choice. The system is a Dinghy-Tow, http://dinghy-tow.com/
I've been eyeing this system for a long time as a possible solution for us. It's not a perfect system; I'm going to do some tweaking to make it more stable but it does work quite well. This was the first trial run. I didn't need to bring the dinghy with me for this trip but I wanted to see how it would handle out on the open water.

 

[Chief RA]

The reason I am interested is obviously I can't davit hang a dinghy off the stern of a C250. This might be a smart alternative to consider. Thanks for the info. Chief

 

[DannyS]

My issue with it is that we have a split stern rail (allows you to step over the rail to the swim platform) which is where the lifting mechanism is located. The split allows the stern rail to flex 1/8" or so which bothers me a little. If you don't have the split rail, I think you'd be just fine.