Still Sailing As Winter Approaches? Share your Photos

[John Boone]

Well it's beginning to happen as winter approaches. Madness seems to set in about this time of year as folks prepare to haul their boats and get ready for colder days ahead.

Anyone that is still sailing, please join in and share some of your most recent photos to help moderate the fall into winter.

Here in NC it has finally cooled off enough to enjoy long days out on the water. We enjoyed a wonderful three days of sailing this past weekend.

Finally had a friend on another boat to take a few pictures while we were under sail.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd304/jsbpbacct/SV%20Whampoa/Whampoa-9-28-08-02BW.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd304/jsbpbacct/SV%20Whampoa/DSC-348Crop03BW.jpg

Had a bit of fun with the image editor and BW effect.

Looking forward to your shots.

Regards,

John

[Yeadon]

Just went on an overnight this weekend. Made it up to Pelican Beach on Cypress Island. Blue skies, nice winds.

Autumn is the best around the Northwest.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/2900481435_a61746df11.jpg

[johngsandusky]

No pics, but I sail year round. I'll be out tomorrow, I was out twice in february.

[Russ Manheimer]

Sjogin was launched yesterday after her usual late Summer refit. My off-season sailing is about to begin.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2903328980_88b6262c20.jpg
Hanging in the straps while her planks swell.

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Late shift Monday night. Ready to go.

More pics here (http://www.sjogin.com/).

I'll rig her Friday and start sailing Saturday. Forecast looks good and hopefully cool enough for a fire and a cuppa.

Happy winter sailing all,

Russ

[Thorne]

http://pic80.picturetrail.com/VOL1001/4000928/8302360/336887198.jpg

[almeyer]

No photos, but last year I was sailing into December, and back on the water in February. Summers down here are pretty warm, but you make up for it with a long sailing season. Hurricane Ike changed that this year; I'll be spending the fall and winter in the garage making repairs. I'm grateful though, I'd rather be making repairs to the boat than repairs to the house.
Al

[David G]

Hey Thorne - that's my boat! I assume you've mailed a check for all applicable usage and licensing fees. Or, I'll take a beer when next we sail together :cool: (now why don't we have a pirate icon???).

For those who managed to miss my previous posting, here's more of Thorne, myself, and the other Ol' Coots.

http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/auroradan/Timothy%20Lake%202008/

[C. Ross]

Nice pictures, John!

No offense to you "winter sailors" south of the Mason-Dixon or on the temperate left coast, but Russ's pictures and notes from Sjogin are a winter highlight.

The idea that I might do like Russ, and head down to the boat and fire up the Sardine woodstove on a cold winter day... well, it's enough to keep a guy going through February.

[Todd Bradshaw]

Sailing season doesn't end here...it just gets stiffer (and a hell of a lot faster).

http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/arrow%20011%20copy.jpg

[David G]

Nice pictures, John!

No offense to you "winter sailors" south of the Mason-Dixon or on the temperate left coast, but Russ's pictures and notes from Sjogin are a winter highlight.

The idea that I might do like Russ, and head down to the boat and fire up the Sardine woodstove on a cold winter day... well, it's enough to keep a guy going through February.

I have to admit you're right. We had snow at our Depoe Bay event this Spring. It was a huge treat to walk down to the harbor and see all the beautiful wooden boats at the docks, frosted with a few inches of snow. There was something special about going aboard a friends Redwing for a cup of hot Irish Coffee to start the day. Cozy & delicious in a primal way.

On the other hand, don't give short shrift to Mark Twain... "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco"

[C. Ross]

LOL! I used to spend every other week in SFO.

I would pack running shoes in January and sweaters in July.

[erster]

Nice shots John. This weekend was a grand one but only a start of our second season. We rarely have anyone that can take shots of the boat under sail, but sure get some shots of mother nature's best. A plus for us is that between sailing trips, we actually get to supplement our grocery bill with fish. :cool::D Oh as far as a stove on a boat? Nah, I leave that for snuggling in more comfortable surroundings, ;) as this would make it feel like summertime for us.:p.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Bateau1/DSC04072.jpg

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[John Boone]

Thanks for jumping in guys and for your contributions. I always enjoy catching a glimpse of everyone's shots from around the planet. I hope we get to see some early shots from our friends that are now coming out of their winters too.

Russ, Sjogin is looking great.

Thorne and David, that series looked like great fun was had by all.

Todd, I'll bet that must be a real high ball.

Erster, were the horses out around Cape Lookout? We saw quite a few last November while out that way playing with the fat alberts.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd304/jsbpbacct/SV%20Whampoa/DSC-318Crop01.jpg

Keep em coming.

Regards, John

[T.A.R.]

Good Fortune and Lands End sailing for Wickford Harborhttp://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v359/91/22/14314710/a14314710_34553268_990.jpg

[T.A.R.]

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[jlaprad]

Sailed 4 day last week, this week small craft advisories all week kept me in. I need more experience before I go out in that stuff. Heres a few pictures of my newly launched caledonia yawl.
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh319/lapradjw/whoopdedoo/sail13.jpg
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh319/lapradjw/whoopdedoo/sail11.jpg

[Canoez]

Sailing season doesn't end here...it just gets stiffer (and a hell of a lot faster).

http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/arrow%20011%20copy.jpg

That a Seda hanging up in the garage?

[bamamick]

What's this 'winter' you're talking about?

Mickey Lake

[John Boone]

Afternoon Mickey,

Glad to hear from our US "Deep Southern" section. Still plenty warm down your way I'm sure. I'm sure you have also begun to see and hear the murmerings around various sailing sites about the coming of winter.

I'm glad you chimed in. I was thinking about you as I get ready for my winter project. I'm going to take on the task of cleaning up and refinishing a 1934 STAR over the winter. Hull number 1064.

Are you the Mickey Lake I saw posts from on the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association web site?

I don't have any photos of the STAR yet but plan to take some next week when I am in Oriental. I hope if I have questions about that boat I can call on you for advice.

Regards, John

[bamamick]

John; yes, I am guilty of posting on various sailing web sites, since I don't actually seem to be spending much time sailing.

My first boat was a 1958 Lippincott, #4541. Since that time I have owned several others and own #5902 and #7496 now. Marvelous boats indeed. Do you have a wooden rig? What are you planning on doing with her?

My boat had an aluminum rig and we tuned her the way that a modern boat of the times (this was in the late 1970's) would have been rigged. More or less the way we do it today (very tight on the uppers, slack on the lowers to allow a smooth bend along the luff, slightly loose on the intermediates). Anyway, the combination of modern rig and the fact that modern dacron doesn't stretch as much as things used to resulted in us tearing the bottom out of the boat. We did a couple of repairs but never could get things right with that boat. Very fast in light air, though. I won several fleet races with ten boats or more in light conditions sailing against nothing but glassfibre boats.

Is your boat an O.G. boat? If so that's a Skip Etchells hull. Do you have any old Logs to look at for information? By all means, post photos.

I LOVE Star boats.

Mickey Lake

[John Boone]

Great,

To be clear, I don't currently own the boat but she has been offered to me. She is a C. Lowndes Johnson boat I'm told. I have not seen the rig yet but was told it is aluminum. She looks to be in pretty good shape having been stored for the last 15 or more years in a warehouse somewhere near the Great Lakes.

Her current owner found her about to be cut up and hauled off to the scrap yard and picked her up to save her. For now she is protected from the elements and he has asked me if I would like to take her on as a project. I have agreed and will be bringing her up to my workshop later in October.

From my initial inspection she looks pretty good as far as her soundness of hull , deck and the rigging I have been able to look at. I have NO experience with these boats with respect to sailing them and am only now learning about the class.

Thanks for getting back to me.

Regards, John

[willmarsh3]

I don't have a winter picture at this point but one year it got down to 5 degrees F here on a Thursday night. By Saturday noon it had warmed up only to maybe 25. I went down to Lake Guntersville where I saw ice in the water around the docks. The local liveaboard guy said it was 1/2 inch of ice all over the lake during the week. I went onboard and looked at the engine. The seawater side had frozen - something it never normally does. I carefully thawed it out with a hair dryer and then ran the boat out on the lake for a while to warm the machinery up. I saw that the riprap on the causeway was covered in ice.

[John Boone]

OK back to those recent pictures from your sailing trips. Apologies to all for my brief self-hijack on the STAR.

Surely across this forum we have more than a handful of folks actually using their boats. Give em up lads and ladies :D

Nice evening on the anchor in South River, NC

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd304/jsbpbacct/Sailing/Sailing%20with%20Parris%20and%20Dan%20September%20 2008/IMG_6328.jpg



Regards, John

[Ian McColgin]

Sorry no photos. And it was not wintery today. Quite warm actually as I took off my teeshirt to really bathe myself in the nice little Gale (Force 8, 35+knots) that wafted our triple reefed sail along.

[John Boone]

Thanks for joining in Ian. I always enjoy seeing and hearing about your sails.

To be clear, there is no requirement for wintery scenes, the whole point here is to provide some much needed inspiration to any and all of our friends and fellow forumites who are beginning to feel the cold winds and preparing to come off or out of the water till spring.

Of course sailing shots from the cooler climates are also welcome as there are still folks sweltering in the southern climes.

Goodnight all.

Regards, John

[StevenBauer]

We're still sailing on Talisman. :) A couple more weeks, I guess.

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2561.jpg



Steven

[almeyer]

No offense to you "winter sailors" south of the Mason-Dixon or on the temperate left coast, but Russ's pictures and notes from Sjogin are a winter highlight.



I could look at pictures of Sjogin all year long. That's one beautiful boat.
Al

[Russ Manheimer]

Thanks All,

I'll be stepping the mast and bending on sails today and maybe go for a sail if light winds. She's still making up and needs to be babied till fully tight.

Cool enough for a fire in any event.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3180/2909894003_241f788041_b.jpg
Floating on her own. (With a little help from her bilge pump.) I found a good size leak in her garboard seam when she was hauled. Re-caulked a few feet and keeping my fingers crossed for a reasonably dry bilge this season. We'll see.

[Ron Carter]

Sailed 4 day last week, this week small craft advisories all week kept me in. I need more experience before I go out in that stuff. Heres a few pictures of my newly launched caledonia yawl.
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh319/lapradjw/whoopdedoo/sail13.jpg
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh319/lapradjw/whoopdedoo/sail11.jpg
Is the top photo between Stearns Park and Epworth? Sure is a good looking boat.

[erster]

We settled for the power skiff today as there was little to no winds. The dogs aired out in the nice fall weather and waters. Both dogs have topsider feet. Tommorrow will be another one of those great days to be alive and will partake of something on the water!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Bateau1/DSC04094.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Bateau1/DSC04100.jpg

[StevenBauer]

We had a nice fall sail this afternoon. Then right at sunset the wind died and we motored the last mile or so back to the mooring.

Some loons drifting along with us:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_0650.jpg


Sunset:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_0659.jpg


Mary making some soup to warm us up before motoring home:


http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_0661.jpg



http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_0665.jpg

[John Boone]

Thanks Mike and Steven,

This is my favorite time of year to sail. Had a wedding to go to today so no sailing here. I appreciate the Walter Mitty ops from each of you.

Looks like a great week coming up and I'm headed for the boat on Monday for a bit of varnish work :D.

Regards, John

[ingo]

Getting wind and rough. Picture from a recent regatta in Denmark
http://www.bm-jolle.de/svendborg08-1.jpg

[Russ Manheimer]

Far more benign in this corner of our world today. Had my first sail of the off-season this morning. Nice and light for a newly launched hull.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3027/2916516338_c1a7824016_b.jpg
Ready to go....

[John B]

I don't suppose us antipodeans really qualify for this thread but this one dragged me out.
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh319/lapradjw/whoopdedoo/sail11.jpg
Similar quality to the water...Taken about this time last year.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/coastal%20classic%2007/r2sb39_1.jpg
Looking forward to the same race in 2 and a half weeks.

[John Boone]

John B you are always welcome as are all other antipodeans ....:D

We are going to count on your spring and summer sailing shots to carry us through.

Regards, John

[StevenBauer]

John B you are always welcome as are all other antipodeans ....:D

We are going to count on your spring and summer sailing shots to carry us through.

Regards, John


I would have said it if John hadn't.:)

Steven

[John B]

Thats nice of you guys.
I just meant the thread is ' into winter' and we're going the other way. Still change of seasons though eh.:D

We were going to go out this weekend just gone but my wee girl got a call up for a rep soccer squad she's been on the fringes of, so it was off on a road trip for a few days instead.
Rhetorical question about kids winter sports....
Will it never end........?;)

[webfoot]

Out trying to catch the last of the Stripers and found a few woodies still in the water. Any of these formites??

http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq304/cmerriam/Harpswell%20Boats/Ceilroh.jpg

http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq304/cmerriam/Harpswell%20Boats/Tewake.jpg

http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq304/cmerriam/Harpswell%20Boats/Delphinus.jpg

[Ian McColgin]

Today was mostly a Strong Breeze to Near Gale (Force 6-7, wind pushing 30 knots) but out of the north so no waves to get us wet. I was a bit nervy dropping off the mooring with the breakwater so close astern so I had the anchor at the ready but no problem. Got the luff tensioned to second reef and gaff horizontal to cast off on the port tack with a nice reach along the break wall. Once clear we rounded up, peaked the sail, and off we went.

One nervous point off Dunbar, narrowest part of the channel, with the ferry Gay Head (NOT a fairy to Provincetown) outbound and moving a lot faster through Lewis Bay than I figured on so we got pinned on the red side hanging over the shoal in irons and drifting astern till the board struck. But then Gay Head got past and her displacement wave picked us off the shoal enough to back into the starboard tack as I lifted the board a bit and we broad reached to the channel, where we bore up as I dropped the board again and we made our tack back northeast and in.

My chores were to land on a friend’s boat - Elu means something in Hawiian but I call her HulaHula - to check the bilge and then sail over to join another friend as he dove to get a line on his rudder. All accomplished with panache, including picking a drifting dink before it went on the beach. I’m getting to like not having a working engine.

By later afternoon it settled back to something like a Fresh Breeze but I was too lazy to shake out to one reef so we puddled along maybe a bit underpowered but with great pleasure.

[Wilson Fitt]

Last cruise of the season this weekend, a favorite stop on the way from Chester to Halifax, NS

http://i359.photobucket.com/albums/oo39/wfitt/IMG_0869.jpg


http://i359.photobucket.com/albums/oo39/wfitt/IMG_0875.jpg

[StevenBauer]

Fantastic pictures, Wilson. Thanks.

Steven

[John Boone]

I second Steven's praise. Wilson do you mind telling us more about the boat in your photos? She is fine.

Thanks in advance,

John

[Wilson Fitt]

Thanks for the nice words.

I have told the story of Christina Grant in old posts on this forum. The short version is that she was built by me in the back yard to Bill Atkin's design #433 "Jerry Colemore" with a enlarged cutter rig by Jay Benford and updated deck and interior plan to my own preference. Conventional carvel over steam bent frames. Basic mechanical and electrical systems. Build time was about 7,500 hours spread over 5 1/2 years. Launch in 1999. Since then we have sailed the east coast of the US, the Carribean, south coast of Newfoundland and twice to Bermuda (one passage singlehanded). Home is now Chester, Nova Scotia and winter berth is in Halifax.

I have been heard to say that there is no magic or mystery to wooden boatbuilding. Anyone with basic skills, sufficient money and lots of perseverance can do it. I stand as living proof of this proposition.

[rufustr]

Thanks Wilson.
A stunning boat in a beautiful setting.
A magnificent achievement, and to say anyone could do it is to downplay just how rare such beautiful boats are, and how skilled you are.

[rufustr]

Went looking for the posts of the construction of Christina Grant and the photos are missing.
Is it possible to do another thread on her building?

[John B]

I'll second Rufus!.
She's the sort of boat you look long at and still keep finding things. I'm trying to work out how on earth you've got that radar perched up there, looks like an elegant solution to a perrenial problem. A strut/ spar in tandem with the backstay?( and the swing mount)
Great spot too, a real nook.

[Tom W.]

Yesterday, 10/8, went for what will probably be the last sail of the season on Lake Mascoma, in NH. Daughter Jenny was crewing, we had modest winds but managed to cover most of the lake, saw one loon and one eagle. Great day, wish the season was just starting.
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[Pernicious Atavist]

Oct 8, just SW of Beaufort, NC.....

http://canoesailingmagazine.com/images/EdMaurer/100_0365.png

I CAN NOT MAKE THIS DAMN POSTING TOOL WORK! NEVER COULD! I'M PULLING MY HAIR OUT HERE! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR......................... .

[erster]

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[Pernicious Atavist]

Thanks, Mike!

[erster]

Hit the image icon and remove the highlighted blue Http stuff and then place the link in the box and hit okay.

[TimmS]

Far more benign in this corner of our world today. Had my first sail of the off-season this morning. Nice and light for a newly launched hull.



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3027/2916516338_c1a7824016_b.jpg
Ready to go....
What is this design? She's very pretty

[StevenBauer]

We had another fantastic sail this afternoon. Yesterday the photographer got us (http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86738) today I was the photographer. We saw so many gaff rigged boats. Not the norm at all.

We saw this beautifully kept Knutson 32:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2604.jpg

There was a pretty nice breeze:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2639.jpg

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2658.jpg

This guy was heading for his haulout. His mooring is two away from ours. She was built by IYRS a Buzzards Bay 15?


Here's another small gaffer, not sure of the design:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2663.jpg

While in the inner harbor this Friendship Sloop joined in:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2669.jpg

I like this pic with downtown in the background:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2670.jpg

[John Boone]

Very nice stuff. Join in ladies.

Thanks in advance,

John

[StevenBauer]

We were passed by this gorgeous tug up from New York:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2671.jpg

This is Libra, kind of a S&S look about her, eh?

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2675.jpg

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2676.jpg



One of the nice things about sailing in Casco Bay is seeing the day charter boats. Every time we go out we see at least one of these beauties. There are the two Alden schooners Wendameen and Bagheera and the steel hulled Topsail Sloop Francis. As we left the harbor Francis and Wendameen were on their way in:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2681.jpg

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2682.jpg

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2683.jpg

[Larks]

Lovely Pic's Steve, couldn't see the tug though?

[StevenBauer]

Just to cap off the whole gaffer theme of the afternoon these guys were sneaking in to the harbor just after we left it:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2686.jpg

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2687.jpg

Kind of a Bristol Channel Cutter look about her. :)

We saw a Bolger Bobcat earlier but didn't get a picture - another gaffer.

[StevenBauer]

Lovely Pic's Steve, couldn't see the tug though?


Sorry, fixed it now. :)


Steven

[Larks]

That tug looks like a whole chunk of grunt!! I want one!

[StevenBauer]

We did see one other tug, it was a local:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/summer%202008/IMG_2664.jpg

:D


Steven

[John Boone]

I have a soft spot for the tugs as well. Shot these two in Norfolk on the way back from the Chesapeake earlier this year.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd304/jsbpbacct/2008%20Chesapeake%20Sail%20with%20George%20Luzier/IMG_5978.jpg

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd304/jsbpbacct/2008%20Chesapeake%20Sail%20with%20George%20Luzier/IMG_6229.jpg

[John B]

Looks lovely Steven.
We had our trip out on the Spirit of NZ on sunday. It was a birthday deal for a friend of mine that was postponed due to bad weather a couple of months ago.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2008/100_1630_1.jpg
Spirit of NZ is the second of the Spirits , the first being Spirit of Adventure( now working out of Fiji under different ownership.)
It was funny. My mate Sid was on voyage #10 and I was #13 in maybe oooo 1974 ? He mentioned it to one of the crew and I met the man who was Engineer from my voyage .

very light, 2 classics were out.
Spray..
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2008/100_1636_1.jpg

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%2008/100_1637_1.jpg

[StevenBauer]

And...

[John B]

ohh. Gloriana , but she was too far away to photograph... :o

the boat in the background is one of Riada's rellys though :rolleyes:

[Dave Hadfield]

Well, we still are. Just got back from a pleasant overnight.

The crew was getting along well together...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/DaveHadfield/Robinsteeringhuggingdog.jpg


The water in Lake Huron is so clear these days... here's a Northill anchor through about 15 ft of water.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/DaveHadfield/Northillanchorthrough12ftwater.jpg

[Tom3]

At least where we sailed. The sailing was wonderful in mostly sunshine and light winds.

We were the only boat in this large cove overnight.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/165russell/SPPoHn1NcWI/AAAAAAAAACo/g34_mK5Ei1k/s640/Cabot%20Cove%20anchorage2.jpg

[John B]

Thats a really interesting looking boat Tom. We have a local designer who uses a very similar window shape in his very lovely keel yachts. They're mostly from around about the early to mid 1970's ,but your boat looks a little older than that ? mid/Late 60's?

[erster]

Well tonight was a fine time on the water with the full moon, well almost, as the full moon never sees its setting sun. So tommorrow night I assume will make for another trip to enjoy the fall weather. The best I can do though is a few shots of the surroundings. A shrimp boat was making ready for his trawl, sitting idle at anchor normally having dinner before working all night.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Bateau1/DSC04185.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Bateau1/DSC04172.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Bateau1/DSC04170.jpg

[J. Dillon]

Nice image Mike.:) Thanks for sharing.

JD

[J. Dillon]

Still pirogueing as well as sailing. This image take on today on a tributary to the Quinnipiac river CT. Duck season opens up next wed.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1549/pirogueing101308sj6.jpg

JD

[Tom3]

Thats a really interesting looking boat Tom. We have a local designer who uses a very similar window shape in his very lovely keel yachts. They're mostly from around about the early to mid 1970's ,but your boat looks a little older than that ? mid/Late 60's?

Aldens first glass hull and deck. The port shape was unique to that time. This plan was drawn in 1959. I see the style on other boats of this era.

While the hulls and decks were all built at Hallmatic in the UK, the rest of the boats wooden structure was finished at various yards around the world.

Thanks.

[Tom3]

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[Larks]

How many forumites will now have this last pic as a screen saver?? - lovely photo Tom.

[hnsbrc]

Pulled the boat out today after a last cruise/picnic of the season yesterday evening. We spent the weekend with our daughter and her family. Cruised to Moxie Island for a campfire and exploring, arriving back well after dark. (Lake Kabetogama, Voyageurs National Park.)
Still have my fishing boat in the water, but we have had a couple nights in the low 20's and before long these waters will frozen for 5 plus months.
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[hnsbrc]

Fishing wasn't bad either. Son in law new to walleye fishing with his catch.
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[Ocean Spray]

Took my dog, Rugs and rowed out to Snake Island. It's a small island just off my yacht club here in Winthrop, Mass. It was a beautiful fall day, temps in the 50's and a Northeast wind in the teens.
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The tide was fairly high(11.2) so we were able to row inside the small salt water pond.
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It was rather quiet in Boston Harbor with just a few sailboats out for a sail. Rugs and I walked around the entire island looking for treasures that may have washed up on the shore.
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[Ocean Spray]

We did find what I thought might be a treasure, a 12'00" length of fir. It caught my eye as we walked the beach. Tight, straight grained, 12'00" x 4" x 4" and not a knot in it.
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I thought it might make a suitable piece of stock for a mast for my Ducktrap Wherry. One of my winter projects is to convert the wherry to a yawl.
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All in all it was a good day to be out on the water. Hopefully, if the harbor does not freeze over, I will row right through the winter months.
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[Tylerdurden]

Moving to a new mooring yesterday and got some sail in at a balmy 40 degrees F.

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[johngsandusky]

I was out on friday, longer than I expected. The morning forecast was 15-20, subsiding to 10-15 gusting 20. I decided to go, sail a new spot. Towed my dory down to Forge river, launched there. Rigged her up and ran down the river. In spite of the many homes, it's beautiful there. Out in Moriches Bay, I turned east, rounded Masury Pt, and ran out of wind. after a couple of minutes, I saw a puff coming across the water. It was more than I expected, heeled the gunwale into the water and blew my hat away. I got her level right off, and went back for the hat. Some more puffs and shifts came down, not as strong as the first. Off I went. Reached along the north shore, tacking up to look into an abandoned marina. Strange sight, I wonder what happened. Continued on past both branches of the inlet, down toward Westhampton beach. Decided to land on an undeveloped peninsula. anchored and waded ashore. Nice, warm in the sun. Saw some blue herons. Waded back out, set sails, weighed anchor. Still in a foot of water, I managed to sail her a bit with neither board nor rudder, shifting my weight and playing the sheets. I'll work on it.
Back in deeper water, I shipped the rudder and daggerboard, sailing back in a now light breeze. Admiring the view: autumn colors, sandy bluffs, golden fall sunlight. Fading sunlight, failing breeze. Hmmm. Did a speed estimate, checked the chart. Yep, I'll be out in the dark, and quite late at this speed (less than a knot). Decided to row. Furled the sails, started pulling. Not bad, she's a fat dory, 6'6" at the gun'l, 3' on the bottom. After a bit I figured I needed every advantage, so I pulled the daggerboard and unstepped the main. I hung a light on the mizzen and rowed. Not too hard, so not to tire out.
The sun set, dead calm now. I have to pull hard around the point against a current. Easier in the river, I can see stars reflected in the water. Pull, pull pull. Change my stroke a bit to keep fresh. Dogs bark, birds squauk, all distant. No other boats, but I can see people in their houses ashore. It's very peaceful. Pull, pull.
Now I can see the bright lights of the marina, row right past, up to the ramp, surprising a couple of pedestrians.
Covered a bit over two miles in an hour, not bad. I'm not sure I've ever rowed that far, and surely not recently. A little stiff, tired, and hungry, but content, I went home.

[JimJ]

Some of these photos are magic. Especially the autumn colours.


and before long these waters will frozen for 5 plus monthsThat is completly foreign to us downunder. Five months of ice. Brrrrrrrrrr.

We have some of the best sailing in the winter months here in SE Qld. Lake Wivenhoe on the Queens Birthday weekend (first weekend in June) with light winds, cool crisp mornings, camp fires at night is great.
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Middle of winter on Lake Wivenhoe.

Well it used to be. Only trouble is we have not been able to do it last two years as the Lake is under 40% and the water a long way from the bottom of the ramp.

Still there is Moreton Bay. Off shore westerlies with afternoon sea breezes. Great.

5 months of ice Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

[StevenBauer]

Yesterday was nice, not as cold as Mark makes it sound. Here he is fussing with his GPS:

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And sailing back to Portland:

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Today was a little colder and much windier. We were reefed down quite a bit. About the only other boat out while we were was this beauty sailing with just jib and mizzen:



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Hughman finally made it out for a sail on Talisman:

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Then we brought her over to a mooring at the marina where the mast will be pulled and by the end of the week she'll be back in the driveway for the winter.

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Steven

[John B]

Pretty nice spring weather here ATM although the southerlies have come back and they grab cold air off the antarctic and dump in on us up here at 36 degrees S. Got my legs out for a while in the weekend,admittedly a shock for the family, but it might be thermals for later in the week with our overnighter.

[Yeadon]

Got a good sail coming up next weekend, weather permitting. A handful of us with little boats are going to circumnavigate Fidalgo Island. That'll be from Anacortes south down Rosario to Deception Pass, up the Swinomish, back to Anacortes.

[snow(Alan H)]

Thanks All,

I'll be stepping the mast and bending on sails today and maybe go for a sail if light winds. She's still making up and needs to be babied till fully tight.

Cool enough for a fire in any event.

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Floating on her own. (With a little help from her bilge pump.) I found a good size leak in her garboard seam when she was hauled. Re-caulked a few feet and keeping my fingers crossed for a reasonably dry bilge this season. We'll see.
Hi Russ - do you have any photos of the stove / fire ? Looks very compact & could be perfect for my boat.
Many thx Alan H

[Wild Wassa]

A few recent shots.

'A Treasure Map'. Looking at Snapper Island on our way to the Toll Gates and thinking about the predicted extreme wind warning that was forcast to hit in a few hours ... which didn't arrive but prompted this image.


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'Another Smokey Day'. The Clyde River and the Oyster leases, looking towards Sugarloaf and the Budawang Wilderness.


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A 'Foggy Start' on the Clyde River.


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'An Impression of a Nice Time'. Dawn off Locksport sailing into another fog bank and waiting for temperature inversion to happen ... and the cold winds of Bass Strait to chill you to your bones.

This shot below looks nice.


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'By n' By, Broken Sky'. I read this quote today, "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination's out of focus". - Mark Twain. I had to create an image after reading such an inspirational quote.


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'Slippery When Wet'. A Magic 25 that I've almost finished restoring. I've just resurfaced parts of the outer hull and rebuilt the bulb after the boat hit a reef. Rainy days are excellent for cutting and polishing. I'll cut and polish the bulb in a few weeks when the paint is really hard.


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Warren.

[Tom3]

The Simpson Lawrence fireplace. I've seen several of these in boat built in the 60's and maybe older. They're a heavy cast iron firebox and front that were usually tiled.

They're a little tricky to operate and also will get very, very hot so you need to keep and eye on things. In this photo, the front plate is removed that closes the opening from the guard up. We use short chunks of bone dry hardwood which I lope off on the bandsaw.

But for heat output they're really hard to beat. Once all the iron gets heated up, it really throws lots of heat. The grate into the head makes this the warmest spot for miles.

Anybody use one of these?

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[Tom Hunter]

These are from the weekend before last:

The boat:





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View of the cove, up in the back of Salem Harbor

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The Freindship Sloop Flying Jib was out for her last sail of the year:

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Also some harbor seals about, but they did not want to pose for photo's that day.

[bott]

This weekend was spectacular in the Puget Sound!


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[Yeadon]

Bott, you do good work.

Here's a recent afternoon just off Shilshole. Not much wind for Big Food, but a nice photo nonetheless.

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[62816inBerlin]

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Great photos from all contributors!

We were out today (21 October), no work on the desk. So the wife and I took our plastic boat "Anansi" (the wooden Mirror is my private toy) out on the lake. The outdoor temperature was 20°C, sunshine and strong wind gusting to what I judge to be 7-8 Bft in odd squalls from SSW . Left around noon. While I was setting the jib, a cushion blew overboard and we decided to practice "man overboard", but found it difficult to tack with a half-set, flapping jib. We gave up after the second attempt and had to finish setting the jib first before rescuing our foam-rubber "mate" (who had been in the water for about 15 minutes before we fished "him"out). We then ran North up our lake (Tegel) as far as Villa Borsig/Grosse Malche and had to beat back against the squalls. Should have put on waterproof trousers, as the spray water was running along the side deck where I was hiking out, but so we ended up with wet pants (we rarely have any sort of wave on this relatively small lake, so we don't think of these things on time). There was nobody out to take pictures of us and we were too busy avoiding getting knocked flat to consider photography, so I beg to be excused. After we finally decided that we really should be wearing lifejackets and had put them on, the wind dropped a bit - I suppose that's the "umbrella and raincoat" effect.

Got back to the mooring around three-thirty in time to get everything stored away before the weather turned. Temperatures have dropped and it's raining now.
I do suppose some die-hards will continue to sail right into the winter!

Gernot

[John Meachen]

Thank you for the account of sailing in Berlin,I seem to remember being advised that around a quarter of Berlin is water.There ought to be some fantastic sailing opportunities for sailing when the water is still liquid.I intend to get afloat this weekend before the weather turns too wintery and it will be nice if the wind is amenable.

[C. Ross]

No sails in sight, but a nice cruise.

Two weeks ago. The trees along the Mississippi were incredible.

Haul-out tomorrow. Sigh.

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[Russ Manheimer]

Thanks all, nice to see I've some company as the waters empty. Julia and I went out for a bit yesterday morning. Barely sailable but it fits my tag line. Cool enough for a fire and plenty of water in the Bay. Expect we may have even more water today with a gale from the SE expected.

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Micro ripples are evident as we tack through the fleet. We were out for an hour all told. Enough breeze to heave to and go below for a cup by the fire. (Where Julia stayed for our time afloat.)

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AlanH requested a pic of our Sardine. Taken last weekend. A little fuzzy (the pic, not me) but you get the idea.

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Finally, one from Columbus Day, chasing the Beaton Flatfish, Serena.

[T.A.R.]

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[marshcat]

Perfect 70 degree day today in eastern Virginia. The wind was dropped off midday for a bit, so I did not get as far as I wanted, but still a great day.

This skiff will be fixed up (a bit) to be an oyster skiff
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Geese near the Rappahannock
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In the channel
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Sailing back up the creek
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Almost back to the dock

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[elf]

We might actually have the proa working correctly now. Took it out last Tuesday and actually got up a tiny bow wave!

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Managed to tack it:

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There was a strange cracking sound in the spar, so Nathaniel went forward to support it on the final sail back to the beach.

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[Ian McColgin]

I need to get Emily or someone with a camera along. Today was fantastic. The fog had lifted by about 0930 and the dead calm had gotten up to a Light Air (Force 1, couple knots). By 1100 we had a steady southwest Light Breeze (Force 2, c. 5 kt) and the day finished on the robust side of a Gentle Breezed (Force 3, maybe 10 knots)

I’ve not repaired the engine so all this is sail alone.

We went into Lewis Bay, landed on a friend’s boat that needed the bilge checked and the engine run. It’s taking years but Marmalade is teaching me her ways. While Marmalade heaves-to most readily, she is very testy with sail up if held by the head. Like sailing over the mooring and other quirky habits. So getting the sail off her for shooting the mooring, anchoring, or landing at a dock or another boat is critical. And the main comes down hard. At full sail, you can cast off the peak halyard and nothing happens. Even at first reef, dropping the peak can be a challenge.

Gaff horizontal is not so good as it can be hard to get the throat to drop - the pressure of the peak halyard on the horizontal spar makes too much friction against the mast. But she’ll sail pretty well, even tack, at first reef with the gaff horizontal. If I shoot a dock of mooring and cast off the throat as I head for the bow, I have time enough to yank the luff directly, hauling it down and then attending to the mooring or landing. Marmalade is not illbehaved with no luff showing even with the gaff up at about 45 degrees.

Still evolving this method, but it’s most promising and I’ve not humiliated Marmalade recently.

After a half hour of that, off we went, back out into the Sound. Mya got underweigh as we made the Port and I had the pleasure - it was just the right air for us - of showing her our transom on a beam reach, but then I headed more towards Bass River while Mya headed closer into the wind.

We got back to the Port about 1500. Instead of just making the mooring I couldn’t resist a bunch of victory laps along the breakwater standing maybe 15‘ away, admiring how our wake lapped into the rocks.

And then sunset.

[marshcat]

A couple of quick questions about rapidly getting sail down, as I have the same issues, although my catboat is much smaller:

1. Do you have lazy jacks? Do you like them, and did you add them yourself?
2. After the sail is down and you are running up on a mooring, what do you do to secure the sail temporarily?
3. Would there ever be a reason to have a downhaul on the throat?
4. Is scandalizing the main ever really used as a utility tool, or is it just a last ditch emergency tactic?

Feel free to answer on a different thread if this is a hijack.

Thanks,

Kevin

[Woxbox]

Did a 5-day cruise down the Chesapeake to Smith Island last week. As usual, October has the best sailing weather of the year and very few cruisers out on the bay. Here's the Ewell waterfront. You can tie up for $20 a night, but any more than 3-feet of draft and you may not be able to get in and out. The tide ran so high last week that it was over some roads and into people's yards. Not much freeboard on this island.

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[Songololo]

Explored some of the northern parts of Lake Zug yesterday afternoon. Winds were 1-2 Beaufort, 15 deg C temperature.

Late lunch stop at Risch's harbor (view looking south towards the Alps):

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Running north with the lazy afternoon breeze:

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These birds were part of a small bunch behind the main flock. They were heading north?

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We were treated to a magnificent sunset as we motored (no wind) back to the mooring:

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The peak in the background (picture taken looking southeast) is Pilatus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilatus_%28mountain%29):

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[Ian McColgin]

In answer to Marshcat:

I am totally in love with my LazyJacks and LazyLifts. I cannot imagine handling the sail without them. Right now Marmalade has quarter lifts - boom supports that land on the boom a few inches forward of where the peak sets down when the sail’s struck - and conventional lazy jacks dividing what’s left of the sail into fourths. I plan this winter to shift to LazyLifts where the quarter lifts come down bifurcating and bifurcating again to combine the lift and jack functions. Marmalade’s nearly 250# boom is considerably heavier than any boat I’ve fitted LazyLifts to so we’ll see.

The conventional topping lift at the end of the boom is less functional for me than quarter lifts, which never tangle with the gaff and have many sail trim attributes - like lifting the boom a nudge with the weather lift when bagging the sail in light air.

My reef clew lines and tack lines are always rigged. The first and second reef clews keep the sail abaft the lifts on the boom when the sail’s struck. The tack lines double as good downhauls when striking sail from the cockpit, the most normal situation, but if I’m going up to the bow anyway, I haul down from there. I have a line from the parrel strap on the gaff hitched through each mast hoop. This keeps the hoops from trying to bind on the way up and keeps them nice and horizontal when someone uses them as a ladder when going up the mast with sail up. I actually grab that line, not the sail luff itself, when hauling down from the bow.

I had hoped the clew lines would also start gaff down when the peak halyard was eased but not really and not nearly enough. I keep a strong flag halyard from the peak down both sides of the sail and under the boom, just long enough that it’s not tight under the boom with full sail. It needs to be coiled and hung on a cleat with the second and third reefs. This halyard is finastkind for giving the gaff that inspiring yank that gets it moving.

With LazyJacks there is no need to further confine the sail while shooting a mooring or dock.

I am more and more using a partly scandalized main to sail in routine tight maneouvers. With the gaff horizontal or peaked up just a very little the boat will sail well, in an under powered way. I can’t really point much closer than five or six points off the wind - tack through 120 degrees - but that’s ok for the job. The lifts keep the gaff above the boom rather than off somewhere to leeward and gybing is easy.

Line management is most important. The sheet and peak halyard are each over 100’. The throat halyard is over 75’. The third reef clew line has almost 20’ of slack when the sail’s struck. Etc. The only way all this works is to be a bit compulsive about how the sheet flakes, to always overhaul the halyards before striking, and to tidy up the clews and tacks always.

G’luck

[rbgarr]

Leaving the mooring,
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The sun-dappled bay all to myself
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For a last long loop around the islands
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Before hauling for the winter.
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[gert]

Took this Sunday Oct 26, hopefully there will be more days, nice 12 knot wind; havn't put her to bed yet...
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[Tom3]

One last sail. With an approaching gale saturday, I took the boat across the bay to Perrys Creek. At low water, I rowed the dinghy up the creek that winds its way deep inside Vinalhaven Island.

If the tidal flow stopped at all, it was only for a few moments. It's very quiet way up there this time of year. I drifted on the few inches of water surrounded by mounded carpets of mussels.

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[jlaprad]

Sailed Oct 9,10,11,13. Some pictures with my wife and mutt. Been laid up (hernia surgery) since the 14th. I have the OK to get back to fun stuff Nov. 10 and I plan on going out when the weather allows. We have had snow fluries all day today, but warming by the weekend.
My boat looks small in this picture.
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Sorry for the fuzzy pictures, had to scan prints.
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[Ian McColgin]

Given the threat of northeast wind, I set out, booted and spurred for the rain this morning. It was dead calm in the early morning but by the time I was rowing we had a fairly brisk west southwesterly giving me a hard row. So I put in a reef I wasn't sure I really needed. We tacked happily towards the channel and, just before I was to tack in and bear off northeast, we got really hammered.

As in heeled over that for the first time we shipped water over the combing and into the cockpit.

Since we were between shoals on the harbor approach I simply scandalized, gaff down to horizontal and held in the quarter lifts, and bore off hightailing in. The dink on her tether was howling with glee, surfing on the following seas that were breaking with Marmalade's wake.

Once into Lewis Bay we rounded up and put in the second and a half reef. The wind had come around to the southwest and it was rough enough that I figured on getting under Fish Hills before completing to the third reef. After that we headed for the winter slip.

This was a down wind landing that was a little complex. I had to luff up along the outer face, drop the sail, and then bear around a fishing boat and drift downwind into the finger slip. All of which worked out so it looked like we knew what we were doing.

Meanwhile, I looked at a friend's boat bucking in the waves off Mill Creek in Yarmouth. She was shearing like the mooring pendent had hopped out of the the chock. I loaded the dink onto Big Red, trucked it around, dragged it across what seemed like miles of beach, and tried to launch but it wasn't just the wind, not just the waves, but both. I spent a good twenty minutes barely clawing a couple hundred meters off before giving up. It was an incredible ride back into Mill Creek. Just hope the boat, HulaHula, is there in the morning.

Anyway, a great sail after Monday's drifter.

[Yeadon]

I took my sailing peapod Big Food all the way around Fidalgo Island this weekend, along with Hvalsoe and a handful of people from CWB.

Probably a bit more than 30 miles, I'd guess. Left from Anacortes, went south to Deception Pass, caught the current through the pass, then sailed south to La Conner. The next morning, rowed north to Padilla Bay, sailed a bit, then caught the tide back out Guemes Channel.

Good stuff. Blue skies. Cool temps.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3150/2981440183_c7072e6aa2.jpg
Above, Big Food being tandem rowed near Burrows Bay.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3232/2983251082_de80840163.jpg
Caledonia Yawl near Hope Island.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/2983246550_bd32462971.jpg
Ukulele on the approach to Deception Pass.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3284/2983247708_029f7e0dcb.jpg
Whew ... Deception Pass is done.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2982402221_c8f5c8be25.jpg
Waiting for the tide to change along the Swinomish Channel, just north of La Conner.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/2982395121_c367cde83a.jpg
Tea and sailing.

[martin schulz]

2 weeks ago. The Apfelfahrt (applerace).

It was blowing 4-5 in gusts up to 7-8 and although all boats decided to motor back, I thought I should give it a try reefed down, because it was the 2nd time on the water for me this year (the Coelan coating took the whole summer):

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii188/sionnachan/museumshafen/AF-2.jpg
Arrival in Glücksburg. The open boats were first.

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii188/sionnachan/museumshafen/AF-1.jpg
The others arrived


http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii188/sionnachan/museumshafen/IMGP9913.jpg
Then when people were motivated enough the apples were carried to the boats

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii188/sionnachan/museumshafen/AF-4.jpg
There was a big uncomfortable swell, so we decided not to stay too long.

[Bark]

http://pic50.picturetrail.com/VOL483/8634233/16009429/342452142.jpg

A little cool this afternoon, but nice ... lots of boats on the Chesapeake.

[John B]

This is us a couple of weeks ago, a few hours before we got the living daylights kicked out of us, and I ended up driving the porcelain truck.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/coastal%20classic%2008/CC2008TiriChannel066.jpg
but then the next day we had this...
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/coastal%20classic%2008/100_1675_1.jpg

and this ( used in another thread but I like it)
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/coastal%20classic%2008/100_1679_1.jpg
and all was right with the world.

[Bark]

Great pic with the dolphin, John. And that scenery ... wow.

Ben

[John B]

Neat eh:D There's a thread I started with a couple more in misc boat here somewhere.

[Chip-skiff]

John B.— Winter isn't approaching for you Kiwis for another six months or so.

I hoped to get a picture of me sailing the wee yacht with new snow on the mountains, but the snow hasn't cooperated. The peaks are dry. The canal feeding the reservoir where I sail most often was shut off and the water level dropped. Ice around the edges.

End of the season, here.

[Larks]

The sailing season here, around Darwin, tends to wind up as Summer approaches. Best sailing and weather is in Winter, the "dry" season here, still a few diehards brave the heat, humidity, lightning and lack of breeze for the brief period before there's too much breeze in the front of a rip roaring storm and monsoonal downpour.

Darwin harbour in winter:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xPZ3o18Pnno/RuPQ2G2ZHUI/AAAAAAAAAyE/srHJhYv0oGo/da013.JPG

[Noah]

I had a couple of nice days out this weekend:

I don't usually take sunset pictures, but who could resist...
http://www.morebutter.com/Swede/nov_8-012.jpg

And a day later beating upwind:
http://www.morebutter.com/Swede/nov_8-018.jpg

We were all having a great time - it was actually pretty warm:
http://www.morebutter.com/Swede/nov_8-020.jpg

Juniper Island, which was in one of the other pictures from the other day:
http://www.morebutter.com/Swede/nov_8-030.jpg

[Darren McClelland]

Just put the last boat away on sat, my 16 foot work boat qnd pulled the floating dock in , Sun snow about 2inches, picked a good day, glad I didn't wait longer.

Darren

[Noah]

Here is a video on youtube of our last sail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbhBVpVvOEQ

Just got word from the shipyard that she has been hauled.

[tmonahan]

Maybe the last of the season sailing in Newport, RI. Just Encore and a quick closer look up from PAM...15 knot breeze, crisp air and great company..oh and some Jameson's

http://photocast.me.com/looncove/100629/rss

[Ian McColgin]

He who has a Tates . . .

Nice sail this afternoon. The motor’s down and Marmalade’s slip is one out from the bulkhead facing roughly north. Today’s wind was northwest. So we got ready, dropped the lines, pushed back, drifted out, and ran up the sail to luff at two reefs and gaff horizontal.

I am really getting to love the ability to rapidly power up and power down by gaff angle.

We bore off to the second alcove of the inner harbor, by the steamship docks, before rounding up to peak up and then gybe around and out. What a gas.

But as we snorted out of Lewis Bay with the strong ebb I realized that two reefs was way underpowered. Shook to one. We could have sailed full sail, but it was nice to relax. The wind was a Fresh to Strong Breeze (Force 5 to 6, maybe 25 knots at times) but out of the Northwest meant flat water. In Hyannis Port we had some cool shifts. We tacked three times without changing course.

Anyway, nice goof-off and then back to make my landing.

I planned to make a practice run before meaning it, but then it just looked perfect, so I dropped the peak and glided ahead. The wind shifted and I figured - Plan B - to bear north and around to come in a bit more downwind with power, but then we caught a partial shift and I thought to keep on, and then . . . I kept bouncing between plans without decision.

Reminded me of why one should not count on a Tates compass.

Anyway, my dithering left me with no choice but to ease into the dock just south of mine, drop the sail, and with the enthusiastic but problematic assistance of the Dock Committee warp Marmalade into her slip.

Why do older men think they are seadogs who can in their hands hold a six ton boat when there’s a perfectly good piling to take a turn about?

Anyway, any landing that does not involve splinters and splashes is good enough.

My old director from Oregon went into the family apple orchard business thirty years ago, branched into fine brandies, and has recently branched into making a whiskey on the style of an Isley scotch. Hard to get a bottle but my packie got one and called, so I gave it a test after making the dock. Both Mother Ocean and I agree that McCarthey’s is really quite good for a three year old.