I'll confess also - today we were out with guests (with 3 young kids) for a few hours
around the harbor. After powering around the tourist sights, I wanted to do a bit of
sailing, but the wind was 12-25, and there was a 70% chance of showers and t'storms. Not
a day to be too ambitious, but it was a beam reach, so we just pulled the jib and reached
out to the middle harbor, where it got very choppy, then jibed and reached back in. Not
optimal, but we were still doing 6+ knots, my guest was steering the entire time, and
everyone had fun.

BTW, it still hasn't rained a drop, and there's nothing on the nexrad.


"Gerard Weatherby" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:59:06 -0400, "katysails"
wrote:


We
sailed west with a westerly wind under the Genoa cause I couldn't figure out how
to dump the main without turning the boat.

If you couldn't figure out how to dump the main, then the main was still up....right?
So then you weren't sailing under genny
alone...right??

Sorry, I was being too terse. We brought the main down in Stonington harbor
before we entered the channel.

S/V Cat's Meow
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