I went out with Orin and Richard today on Orin’s boat La Bon Vie’ a Beneteau Oceanus 39. What a nice boat.. It is smooth as silk.. He has a roller furling jib and in mast furling on the main which made putting sail on and taking it in very easy.
When we first got out on the ocean there was barely any wind… we just sat there and bobbed for a while. Eventually we thought we saw some wind farther out and put the engine back on to go check it out. Still no wind.. Some of the other sailboats out there started motoring back in about then…. wrong choice. About 30 minutes later the wind started to pick up and we spent the rest of the day sailing at 5 to 7 knots in 11 or 12 knots of wind..
The only problem we had was flies… lots and lots of flies.. by the time we got back Orin needed to wash out the cockpit to get rid of the piles of dead flys from us killing them with a fly swatter.
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