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I hope you enjoy the video. I had fun putting it together from some old video I had taken one day while out sailing beside Valkyr and some I just recently took while crewing on Valkyr. You can download and play a full size version of this video by clicking on the download link [display_podcast] Steve called me and said he was taking a class out kayaking Sunday and did I want to go. I don’t think I have been kayaking in maybe years, and not much in the year and a half prior to that. I have spent all my time and energy sailing and working on my boats for the last few years. We went out on the Waccamaw River at Peachtree Landing. I had a great time. I think I am going to find a roof rack for the new honda civic so that I can take a kayak on it when I want to go. Anyway I took the old canon digital camera with me and took a bunch of pictures. Here are a few.. It was a beautiful day for being on the river. We went out Saturday and raced. What a gorgeous day. We came in second on the first race and won the second race. There weren’t many of us out there but it was some tight racing. It was challenging on the starting line with some close maneuvering for advantage and rounding the pins/buoys during the race seemed to see us neck and neck there. The first race we were about 3 feet behind LC Marie come in across the finish line. I got some pictures of LC Marie during the second race when she got frisky with a pin and it decided to go with her 🙂 I had the opportunity to work with a friend on his boat yesterday and I took the inline scale and a tachometer with me to test the performance of the engine in a static thrust test. We also did this with both the stock 8 pitch prop and a 6 pitch prop. The tachometer is a Sendec unit good to 7000 rpm in 10 rpm increments. I have been wanting to do this for a while as I have the same engine only marketed under the tohatsu brand and it has run weak since I got it. I had assumed that there were problems with my engine but based on the test results I think that there is a much larger issue. Went out on Pirate Girl today and sailed around for a bit. Wind was light and started dieing though so we ended up coming in early.. still it was a nice day on the water. Saw Runaway out on the water and Lee on his boat also Patty Steering Jeff Being lazy 🙂 Me steering on the way back in. – I went out this past saturday and raced on la Bon Vie againn. This time the wind was pretty light and the smaller boats were able to keep up. 🙂 But it was a fun day sailing. We were supposed to have a hurricane coming ashore the next day but it ended up turning north and we had beautifull blue skies with light winds. I got to go sailing with Capt’n O on La BonVie his Beneteau Oceanus 39 in the race last week. It was a very good day sailing. Flat seas with 8 to 12 knots of wind we moved right along. 1st in the first race and 2nd in the second race. Breck on Runnaway had a great day.. he came in second and then first in the first and second races respectively. Cleaning the bottom on his boat and getting the new fully battened main really have made a difference in his boats speed and pointing ability. Got out on Valkyr today for a few hours with Miriam, Angela and Zasnic. Nice sailing though very hot on the water today. Went out little river inlet and sailed on the ocean for a while. Saw Jay on Walkabout and Patty with Pirate Girl on the water. Jay invited me out sailing on Walkabout wednesday. I had just pulled Sea Puppy out of the water for the year the day before and was feeling pretty down about it. He’s a good friend.. He came and helped me put Sea Puppy on her trailer and take the mast down. The next day he took me out sailing to cheer me up. 🙂 It worked. The wind built from about 8 knots till it was blowing a steady 15 to 17 knots true. Walkabout just dug in and flew, as the wind built we did a steady 8 to 9 knots boat speed…. with flat seas that built to about 2.5 ft or so as the wind built it was a nice ride. I stayed on Sea Puppy this weekend and early week. I know she will be coming out of the water soon.. Just a matter of days really. I don’t really want to think of it. Everyone one I know has invited me to go sailing with them when I pull Sea Puppy. Sometimes I wonder at how fractious our sailing club is. Times like this makes me see it for the family it tries to be. Though the only blood binding us is that spilled on our boats and taken by the ocean to pay our dues for using her it is still a powerful binding. There is a brotherhood not really spoken of but it is felt. So for any of you that read this…. Thank you brothers and sisters! It has continues to meant much to me. Miriam and the kids went out with me today and we motored out to Waities Island and anchored near shore. The kids had been wanting to go putt putt golfing but I didn’t go along with that. I know how much they like it but I really wanted to spend as much time on Sea Puppy as I could before she comes out of the water next week. It ended up being one of those glittering days that all goes well on. William and Emily had a great time playing on the beach at Waities. I played with them some and the rest of the time spent scraping Sea Puppys bottom. Over all she was really clean. Nothing but a handful of barnacles. I ended up snorkling with a the while plastic handle that heavy duty scrubby pads come glued to. I had one I was going to wipe the bottom with but the glue fell apart in the sun while in the cockpit. The plastic scraper I had bought, broke within a few minutes and Miriam had started using the handle. It worked great. Protected the hand and was hard enough to scrape with but malleable enough to not break. I took sea puppy out sailing today.. not many more days sailing left for her this year. I will be taking her out of the water this coming week. 🙁 |
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