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Judy and I went out on Sea Puppy yesterday afternoon… we got a late start and there was no wind and mild thunderstorms rolling in. We kept hoping it would get better but after getting drizzled on several times and then after we got to the jetties having a thunderstorm go over we decided to just anchor up for a while and kick back with a couple of mugs of hot chocolate… . I really recomend swiss miss chocolate sensations instant hot chocolate.. if you make it really strong it is to die for 🙂 After going to a job this morning I came down to little river and met Judy about noon.. there wasn’t really any wind so we hung out with Breck on Runnaway for a while then went to lunch with Breck, Patty and Hans. After lunch …. a long and late lunch… we went back to sea puppy and headed out… halfway to the inlet it started to drizzel on us but we were detirmined… on we went… after gettin to the inlet we stopped the motor and realized there was no wind at all… then a thunder storm rolled over and rained on us and gave a little wind but not much.. within a few minutes I decided to just go back in the inlet and anchor out for a while.. so we headed in and anchored up behind bird island. the thunderstorms had brought some much cooler air, to the point that we were getting cold.. I only had one foul weather jacket on board so judy got that.. I need to remember to keep more of them on board even in summer. Today kinda sucked.. it was still better than not going out but it still sucked 🙂 Angela, Mike, Miriam, Richard and I all went out on Sea Puppy. It looked pretty good as we left the dock but about halfway to the inlet the skys started to close in and a drizzle begin… then the rain lifted but we were still watching the skys closely.. with a low ceiling and lots of grey clouds it was a bit of a forbiding sky on three sides of us. Well by the time we got to the inlet it had rained on us twice briefly and was looking much worse. Also we started to hear thunder in the distance.. I had been hoping that it would clear up but it just didn’t look like it. I went ahead and called it and we headed back to the dock.. We were under sail at this point and the winds were favorable to sail back to the marina so we left the motor in the water but with it off. Well we went out and kicked butt on saturday. The boats in my class were a Hunter 23.5 with a phrf of 255, Kathey Lynn with a phrf of 171 and me in Sea Puppy at 191. We lost the second race due to a not great start and not balancing the weight on the boat correctly.. The wind had shifted about 45 degrees so it was a straight up speed race with us making the windward mark without tacking and then reaching back to the finish line. It was great, I finally got to take Sea Puppy out again. The roller furling is awesome.. total time to sails out or furled is under 15 seconds. The radio worked great also.. and the main goes up and down so easy it’s like being on another boat now. Amazing what having a sheeve at the top of the mast will do 🙂 I have stopped using a shackle on the main halyard. I am just using a bowline on it to attach to the headboard of the sail. Thats what we were using to attach to the shackle we were using and it had issues. So its just easier and more convienent to just put it on the main directly. 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. 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
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 was a fun race. We took 2nd place behind Tze Su? sp 2 hours 42 minutes and 40 seconds We held with tze su upwind runing about a 10th of a knot slower than her the entire leg. Down wind runing the spinnaker though she tacked down wind and we went straight for the mark. With our symetrical spinnaker I thought we had it made about half way to the mark and that we were going to beat her. We were doing a sold 6.5 to 7.2 knots all the way downwind. Tze Su was a dot on the horizon off behind and to starboard of us.. about 2 miles from the mark she started to gain quickly and within the last mile passed us to take the finish line 4 minutes ahead of us. I talked to Patrick later and he said they were doing 9.5 knots reaching with their asymetrical spinnaker. I felt really good about coming in 4 minutes behind Tze Su…. They are based off the 235 hull but he extended the transom 3 ft so that their waterline is 3 ft more than mine. I have a wing keel and draw 2’9″ while he has a fin keel with a bulb and draws 5 ft, my mast is 29 ft tall and his is 33 ft he also has a bow sprit to run an oversized spinnaker on. Also I believe that his boat is lighter by a fair bit than mine. It certainly seems to sit lighter in the water from what I have observed. In any case it is always a boat to be feared in a race. it is fast and well captained I left the marina about 9 am monday morning after topping off the fuel tank. Forecast was for 3 to 4 ft seas and 15 to 20 knot winds. I put the main up with a reef in it just after leaving the marina entrance. I was blowing every bit of the forcast. As I motored out the inlet the waves started building in the mouth of the inlet so that between the current and wind I was barely making progress out the inlet. It was rough and I was taking lots of heavy spray over the boat as I tried to pound though the waves. Finally I just rasied the blade and turned the motor off. With the blade up and one reef in the main I had plenty of power to tack out the channel and through the inlet out to marker 8 and then take a right to head down the coast. As soon as I started sailing the motion of the boat became much better and it was a much drier time. It took about 6 tacks to get to the #8 so I could turn right and get around the shoals. |
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