Wednesday is Photo Day - 2021

[jssailem]

obviously the view isn't very good at night

Ain't that the truth... taken this morning at 07:16 Pacific Daylight Time... No daylight in Hawaii... They must be deep sleepers.

 

[Phil]

Looks pretty cool now.

 

[jssailem]

Cool fish tank.

 

[walt]

Backyard sailing? Well.... involves a "sail" shade, old windsurfing boards, windsurfing masts and some wind.. Testing this out today at 7000 ft elevation

 

[Michael Davis]

What’s the hull speed of that house?

 

[DArcy]

I finally finished the cap rails that came off last fall to seal the hull/deck joint. I went with Cetol Natural Teak and I'm happy with the results.
Before:

During:

After:

 

[Captain Larry-DH]

My son captured this spectacular rainbow while taking off from Nashville. The second clip shows the rainbow encircling the plane! It was a "wow" moment.

 

[TomY]

A hot August dawn just a few weeks ago.

 

[PaulK]

A competitor - conveniently located to leeward and behind - took this shot of us last Sunday. Shifty NW breeze with puffs over 20 knots had us put a reef in the main. A nice lift helped us be first at the windward mark...and at the finish. We hope new racing sails next season will put us ahead in the light stuff.

 

[Phil]

Stroma of Mey in Berkeley Marina on Monday.

STROMA OF MEY

www.woodenboat.com

 

[jssailem]

View from on high...
This is looking across Boundary Passage towards Stuart Island (mid upper right).

‎⁨SMONEĆTEN (McDonald) Campground - Gulf Islands National Park Reserve⁩, ⁨Gulf Islands⁩, ⁨Saturna⁩, ⁨​

British Columbia⁩, ⁨Canada⁩​

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[jssailem]

Sailboats that caught my eye...in Canadian waters.

 

[DArcy]

Last Saturday was our fall 50 mile race. With the weather forecast calling for under 5 knots of wind and rain all day there was a really poor turn out in the start line. Only two boats showed up. 2 hours of 0 to 2 knots was a slow start. We had the code zero up which allowed us to eek out a lead. Then the wind built to 5 to 7 knots and went aft where our competition gained using their oversized spinnaker. They caught us at the first mark and we had a restart after 18 miles.
The rain was on and off but the wind picked up to as much as 12 knots which brought us home in 11 hours with a 22 minute lead, not quite enough to overcome our rating.

 

[TomY]

At dawn this week in busy Camden Harbor, the only thing I heard was a loon calling and the low thunder of the waterfall at the head of the harbor.

 

[jssailem]

A PacificNW cruising, bad dream

 

[D Swanson]

 

[DayDreamer41]

Sunrise over Portage Lake, Houghton MI

 

[FDL S2]

I had a visitor hitch a ride in the harbor tonight.

 

[Ed Caldwell]

Nose to nose with history... Catalina 42 I was skippering last week and a replica of the Santa Maria at Brunswick Landing Marina in Georgia

 

[Ed Caldwell]

And then just a

quarter mile away, some of the sections of the Golden Ray, being prepped for transport to the scrap yard