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Sailing on Walkabout

I got to go out on Jay’s Jenneau 43 “Walkabout” today.. What a sweet boat!!

We had about 2 1/2 foot swells with 8 to 12 kts of wind and she pretty much sailed half to a little better than half of apparent wind speed through that range. Walkabout is probably one of the largest sailboats I’ve sailed on to date and the motion is quite a bit different. A much slower motion. Though I didn’t get green, I could feel the potential for it early on in the day. After a while I shook it and felt fine though.

I felt mostly useless on the boat. Jay has her setup to single hand and he did a lot of the sail tweeking himself just because it was easier for him to do it. Kinda weird being a non working passenger 🙂

I really enjoyed meeting Sandy, Brian and Scotty also. Nice sailing company 🙂

So here are a few pictures from the day..

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I had fun taking these two pictures. 🙂 got to lean out over the water on the first one.

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Sandy and Scotty

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Jay and Brian

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Jay

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Sandy

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Scotty

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So thank you Jay for a beautifull day sailing 🙂 Good water time with good people!

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