The end is near

Jackdaw

Jackdaw

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Nov 8, 2010
11,386
Beneteau First 36.7 & 260 Minneapolis MN & Bayfield WI
Scott T-Bird said:
Sail trim must be taking a back seat at the end of the season ... I see a lot of idle hands and nobody seems to be paying ANY attention to the telltales! Skipper seems to be tolerating a complete disintegration of discipline!
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Yes discipline had slipped by this time. I blame the Two Hearted. The GOOD news that on a reach in 18-25 knots, it it really hard to screw up trim in a way that effects boat speed! We hit 8.0 knots with the jib. The kite would have been good for 9.5+, but we were having too much fun to crank up the drama.
 
Windtherapy

Windtherapy

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Apr 25, 2015
282
Oday 26 Oscoda, MI
Jackdaw said:
Kestrel still in, but ready to get pulled within a week. We want to last out, so we can be first in in the spring. That's what we call a 'snow sky'.

But at least another month of sailing on BlueJ in Minneapolis. The that day that Marquette pix was taken, this was us on Minnetonka, a fun-sail with the our crew (and the crew of CB32863's First235 Seeker) in 15-20 knots of perfect SW breeze.

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Say hi to my hometown or close to it...grew up in Fridley. Does Prince and Curt Carlson still have their mansions on the lake? Now I am in MI and yup, have friends up in Marquette at Northern University and they are not that happy from this early dump.
 
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Zarathu

Zarathu

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Aug 19, 2015
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West Wight Potter 19 Bar Harbor
A great September of sailing always makes you think that October will be just as good, and it never is. Here in northern downeast Maine, the best time to get out is actually around September 20. That's when the wind is still blowing from the south and its easiest to get the boat up the ramp in calm wind. But by October its now blowin' from the N and NW, and things seem to have gone down hill really fast. Waiting until October 14 is usually a bad scene.

Almost fell in the water last wednesday, when in rough water on the mooring, the dock line slipped off the starboard side of the dinghy, and suddenly I was split between the sailboat and the dinghy with my butt handing into the 53 degree water. Would have been much "funner" when the air temps were 70f, than 48F.
 
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