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I went out on Pirate Girl today with Patty, Cary, and Mike. I was a beautifull day sailing… We went out a few miles and back and on a beam reach in 11 or 12 knots of wind were able to not let Breck catch us in Runnaway. There is definately something wrong with Pirate Girls knotmeter it showed 4 to 4.5 knots top boat speed when we had to have been averaging about 6.5. Breck in runnaway said they were doing 6 to 7.5 and were unable to catch up to us. Just me and Cary took Sea Puppy out sunday and it was a beautifull day.. the temperature was in the high 80’s and there was a nice breeze till late afternoon.. The seas were very low.. maybe 6 inchs to 1 foot of swell and just the cats paws that the wind rasied on the water.. We were one of the first boats out on the water. We got out and sailed about 2 miles from the inlet and then turned around to go mess with Breck in Runaway his Cabo Rico 38. (ive been calling it a Cabo Rico 39 but he told me its actually a 38.. lol even though its 40+ over all including the bowsprit.. oh well boats are weird) Well I got my mom and sister to come out with me to race. I also had Cary on board as crew… it started out as a great day. We got out on the ocean and the breeze was at about 10 knots. It was decided to do a leeward windward race to the sherman a wreck 6 miles away.. I got a great start and we poled out the 155 and just started shooting for the mark at about 4.5 knots… the only boats ahead of us were an S2 and Tarten 10 everyone else was falling behind 🙂 I went out sailing on sea puppy today with Cary Huhr. The motor out and back in on the waterway was brutal. Against the tide both ways with the current running 2 knots. Then add in 4th of July traffic and crazys.. We actually ended up saving a jet skier that fell off his jet ski and was having problems getting back up on it or his girl friends jet ski. I saw him fall off and his jet ski was 20 yards away by the time he was even able to look away with the wind and current carrying it faster than he was able to follow. I throtled down just a knot or two and when it became obvious that he wasn’t going to be able to get on his girlfreinds jetski with her motored over and threw the ladder down and let him climb up on Sea Puppy.. Even though he had only been in the water for a couple minutes he was out of breath and we had to help him up the ladder. We took Pirate Girl out today. Han’s his sister Lisi, Cary, Patty and me. It was a nice day sailing. Maybe 11 knots of wind and low seas. Everyone else was out also. 🙂 Jerry on LC Marie with Richard crewing, Orrin had La Bon Vie out, Diamond Girl was out and also Lickety Split.. Later as we were coming in we saw Achilies Heel anchored out at waities island. The only excitement of the day was that we thought we had an engine problem at the end of the day..We started the engine and the warning buzzer stayed on and the voltage and oil pressure warning lights stayed on. We killed the engine and Patty went below to see if there was anything she could see on the engine that was obviously wrong. The wind was going pretty good and we were approaching the inlet so it was getting bouncy. I took in about 2/3 of the Jib and about half of the main.. (the main did not want to go into the mast again.. I took and put a little more tension on the main halyard and then pulled it all the way out before trying again and it went in then. After getting all the electrical system put back together and the GPS sounder installed I cleaned Sea Puppy out and then went sailing 🙂 Hans, Neylla, and Lisi, han’s sister went out with me… Just an afternoon sail off the coast 🙂 Neylla and Lisi Hans
Sea Puppy is still a mess inside from the work I have been doing to the electrical system so instead of racing her I went out on Webejamming with Jim Pike, Lou, Greg and Cary. It was an interesting day.. Webejammings engine is still not running so Jim got his son to bring a skiff out and tow us from the dock the 5 miles to the inlet 🙂 and back later in the day.. sort of. 🙂 The first race was going good till we got to the first mark.. Jim thought we were doing a windward leeward race instead of a triangle course… everyone else in the fleet must have been wondering what we were doing heading back for the finish line after the first mark 🙂 it took a couple minutes to sort that out and get back on course 🙂 over all I think we did 3rd in that race… but I haven’t seen any of the official times yet. Sunday we went back out on Pirate Girl. After again sailing through the morning to early afternoon we went and anchored out at Bird Island. Steve and I took the surf kayaks out on the ocean side and surfed for a while 🙂 what a blast.. I had almost forgotten what fun it is.. lol or how out of shape I am. Hans who was out on Runaway and over at bird Island also told me that one of the torpedo looking floats/tanks/? had been seen on the marsh on the waterway… I talked steve into going back to my boat after we got back to the marina to go out and salvage it.. 🙂 we took and motored down just past Crab Catchers on the Inland Waterway and anchored in about 4 ft of water and then waded through mud up to our knees to get to the bank.. the float was up in the marsh grass about 50 or 60 feet from the waterway but it was light enough that Steve and I could slowly/barely roll it over the marsh grass and into the water where it foated. I wish I had pictures of us doing it … what a hoot. we went out saturday on Pirate Girl and sailed till about 2 in the afternoon and then rafted up beside Runaway, Breck’s Boat. Later Angela in Sea Haven rafted up on us and Al and his wife on Achiles Heel anchored near us. I got to ride Brecks Jet Ski… oh my.. i have had fun bashing those things for years but MY are they fun to ride 🙂 I didn’t realize what fuel hogs they are though… it ate 13 + gallons of gas .. ouch!!!! Later in the afternoon we had a bit of excitement when the bow line on Sea Haven parted and the current turned her stern to Pirate Girl’s port side with the engine and boarding ladder of Sea Haven bouncing off of the hull. Everyone was sitting on the beach except one person who was asleep on Pirate Girl and slept till we all started swarming up on the boats… I’m not sure who noticed first what had happened but as soon as I saw it I with steve sprinted down the beach and out into the water … the last 50 feet to the boats was in water we had to swim in and the current was running about 2.5 to 3 knots.. I could barely make headway at a swiming sprint… If it had been 15 to 20 feet farther I’m not sure I would have made the back of pirate girl. About 4 minutes later others from on the beach started to arrive to help me and steve. The lines were so tight that we had an increadably hard time releasing them. we tried pulling Sea Haven back against the current to sit beside Pirate Girl but pulling several thousand lbs of 27 ft boat against the current wasn’t happening.. finally with Steve and Angela on Sea Haven we released her and let her drift off. Crises resolved they got her running and swung back around.. We passed angela her stuff and she went on back to the marina while steve hopped over onto runnaway. On inspecting Pirate Girl we found no damage just some smudges on her gel coat. I haven’t had a chance to talk to angela and see if she had any damage. I went to a friends wedding yesterday and missed the first day of racing… Jim and Patty and John took Sea Puppy out and raced her.. however racing against a J24, Tze Szu, a Beneteau F36.7 and a tartan 10 didn’t do much for our chances.. Sea Puppy finished 6 of 8 if .. today with me on board we finished again 6th of 8… I think we should have been in cruising class not racing class.. we were the highest phrf in racing with Bens Anago being close to us. All the other boats were significantly lower than us. It ended up being just me and patty taking her 323 out monday. It was a beautifull day sailing with 6 to 12 knot winds and 2 to 3 ft seas. Sunny with clear but hazy skies. We were actually able to arrange it so that we left on a falling tide and got back on the rising tide.. this actually turned into a problem getting back into the slip at the end of the day. both the wind and the current were coming into the marina and pushing the bow of the boat over as patty tried to back into her slip.. after about 10 tries we finaly got the boat in. It wasn’t fun for patty but she did a good job of it. Day two at the Leukemia Cup was another day of tack tack tack. We again raced inside on the river and with a vicious current running against us on the windward tack we were limited to one side of the river. So it was short quick tacks again and again and again. Probably every 3 or 4 minutes we would tack. For some reason we just couldn’t seem to point as well or go as fast as we thought we should be. It wasn’t a great day for standings in the race but it was some fun if tireing sailing. I slept on the boat saturday night… I went to sleep about 11pm and was told the next morning that there was a bad thunderstorm and rain about 1:30 in the morning… I wouldn’t know though 🙂 I slept like a baby the whole night. |
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