Night Sailing

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Well its been unseasonably warm this week. Its 75 deg out and a strong thermals around 5:30 so i grabbed lucky dog and said what the hell Let's Go Sailin Heading out into heavy chop and diminishing daylight with the sails raised and running lights on was a new experience for me.

As we rounded Worlds End the breeze really picked up. It was an almost scary situation since the winds around here can be fickle and gusty I had not realized how much i used my sense of sight to forecast gusts as the moved across the water. With out that sense i had to hone my instincts and other senses like hearing the wind direction and approaching gusts and their subtle directional change.
It was scary but also within my learning curve. I gained confidence enough to handle the situation and pulled in to Garrison to enjoy a well earned beer. With the sails stowed it should be an uneventful motor home.

Posting from my iPhone at Guinans
no video cause you need light to film

[Phillip Allen]

Thanks Joe...

[JimD]

You just keep honing those instincts, buddy. Choppy waves at night can look a lot like this:

[Phillip Allen]

you can get fat from choppy waves???!!!

[JimD]

you can get fat from choppy waves???!!!

You ship enough of that stuff and yes, definitely.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Made it home safe and sound.

[Mrleft8]

And yer insects are still intact?

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

And yer insects are still intact?

The problem with posting on the iPhone is it has an auto correct feature when typing so if you are marginally off spelling as I sometimes have been known to be It will correct the word in a totally off way.

I was hoping this thread would take a different direction but hey it is what it is

[hansp77]

no filming at night?
come on Joe
all you need is a little spot light taped to your camera that is attached to one of those head gear film yourself thingy's,
and presto, we have the Nightime Hudson Sailing Project

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

no filming at night?
come on Joe
all you need is a little spot light taped to your camera that is attached to one of those head gear film yourself thingy's,
and presto, we have the Nightime Hudson Sailing Project

I did try

[Mrleft8]

That's a little scary.......

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Well I owe Joe and others photos of Dove, but my computer won't do a bunch of stuff right now, so I have to figure out a way.I had my buddy Larry take some photos of us out the other day, a beauty of a day with about 10 kts of wind. I was out sunday in 20+ kts... another great day. Dove likes the wind. I have a whole new respect for dories.

[Bob Adams]

I did try

Kinda Survivormanish, eh

[rbgarr]

Night sailing isn't so bad!



As long as I keep hearing the lobster pots buoys hit the hull I'm okay. It's when they stop that I start worrying.

[Norman Bernstein]

I used to sail at night fairly regularly.... but I suspect that incident and ambient light from the shore is a lot brighter in my part of Narragansett Bay, than it is on the Hudson.

My biggest concern was running into an unlighted buoy, of which there are a few in my area.... the advent of gps/chartlplotters took that fear away.

Wind conditions on upper Narragansett Bay at night are usually quite steady, so it's also probably a bit easier than on the Hudson.