joevan wrote:
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:00:38 -0500, CaveLamb
wrote:

joevan wrote:
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:47:15 -0500, CaveLamb
wrote:

We are getting used to a new suit of sails.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lBYPMJbul46
"Sunday-6kts.mpg" What is the mpg?
6 kts but mpg?

Well, let's see...
We sailed about 100 hours last summer...
Average speed? what 4 knots?

call it 400 miles.

and used nearly 4 gallons of gas.

So 100 mpg?
I was thinking only of sailing. It was just my confusion. I thought of
that but that lovely lady in the photo got me rattled.

Yeah, she has that effect on me too sometimes...

She is becoming quite the sailor too. We took some ASA classes together
(she had never sailed before and I wanted a refresher after years off)
and she got to take a J22 out solo. AND brought it back in one piece.


As for MPG, we have to get out of the marina somehow.
It's a very narrow cove off of the lake and runs north/south.
The winds are usually N/S as well.
There are a couple of places less than 50 feet wide that we have to get
through between docks.

Kinda tight to sail out of (although I did once, just to show off)

I wouldn't make a habit of it, though, because there is usually a 40-50
foot power boat coming through every time I think of being stupid again...

But it was fun to watch them panic when we came though with the sails up!
(dead downwind run)

I should have hoisted the spinnaker for that one! (evil villain laugh!)

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Richard Lamb
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