Spontaneous Sunday Cruise (7/11/10)

A beautiful summer day here, and I wanted to clean the prop shaft and prop on the boat, Brigite wanted to go for a swim, so we took the boat out to East Beach.

But there was a nice breeze, so we went for a lovely sail first - out into the bay and back. Wind was from the South around 6 kn and puffy.

We dropped the hook and had a very nice swim in the warm water. The shaft and prop had some barnie growth, and the hull had a layer of slime, which I brushed off. I got another jelly sting - which is no more than a sting from nettles from back in the homeland.

We hung out on the boat for a couple of hours on the hook, then had to go home as we didn't bring any dinner with us.

4th of July Cruise

Our friends Karen & Mike joined us for an afternoon and evening sail and BBQ on Silver Fox to celebrate our nations birthday.

Had a decent breeze from the ENE and we sailed close hauled to first island, then back towards Little Creek. It was mostly sea breeze, then around 6pm (I think) the wind suddenly died and filled from the SE which was the gradient. That was quite cool, but it happened right as Karen gave Mike the tiller, so he thinks he is cursed by the sailing gods!!

We went to the beach at Ocean View and anchored there to BBQ and watch the fireworks up and down the coast. It was a lovely warm evening, and we had a delicious time!

Around 10pm we sailed back to LC and it was a busy place with all kinds of boats making their way back to the channel and their docks in Little Creek. It was neat to see the whole place lit up with red, green and white nav lights! Karen claims it was the "best 4th of July ever", and none of us disagreed!

Wed Night Racing Update...

We have been fortunate to be able to not miss any races yet this season - I guess you could say we are getting good value for our entry fee!!

6/23/10
Steady ESE to SSE, strong Flood. Raced Mike 1st time. Too much action with Baserunner and at corners (douse gybe, gybe set). We were 3rd in class, beating Schock who hit the leeward mark and lost a lot of time there. A stressful race with storms brewing at the end.

6/30/10
Very light & shifty Easterly. Long phases between shifts. We were not always in phase. We had a pretty good race, but I think when we were behind I pressed too hard and sailed too tight in the beats for the light airs.

7/7/10
Good breeze from NE 15kn, went left and quickly & gradually decreased to 6kn. This was a tough race for Brigite, as she had a real hard time trimming the genoa, as it was so physically hard, and that put us off kilter, and left a lot of time on the racecourse.

7/14/10
Nice breeze that faded and went hard right as the evening progressed. We had a good race except for being foulded by Trouble, who were oblivious to the fact that they were in the wrong. I managed to keep it together and move on, but my game plan was destroyed, as we couldn't get to the right as early as I had wanted.