Gerard! Glad to hear you're still around. It's even better to hear you've
been out sailing. There's no better way to work on the communication that
by being out there doing it.
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Steve
S/V Pony Express

"Gerard Weatherby" wrote in message
...
After too many f--ing hours on the A4 -- long story, ended up replacing
the
intake/exhaust manifold -- we (wife and I) finally had a short sail in
Fischer's
Island Sound Monday. Moved to a mooring this year instead of a slip, and
moved
to a Marina at the mouth a different river. (Mystic) Much nicer -- just
drop
the mooring line and we're underway and no dock lines and fenders to mess
with.
Sailed west against wind and current for a couple hours and probably made
less
than a mile headway!

Need to work on our communication skills a bit. While the engine running
much
cooler due to vastly improved water flow, the Admiral had trouble getting
the
choke and throttle setting right. She wasn't able to get it above idle
without
it starting to stall. I ran back to cockpit, set throttle and gas it up
to
crusing RPM, look up and find that she's let go of the tiller to grab boat
hook
to fend hitting another boat!

There was also the time when I asked her to head up so I could (try to)
tighten
the outhaul. We inadvertently went into a tack, and she moved as she
normally
does to cross over but I couldn't because the outhaul was uncleated...



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