Trying to forget about Isabel for a while.
Started out last Sat. with very light wind 3kts, sailed (drifted) for an
hour, gave up, motored to a cove and anchored. At least it's getting cool at
night to sleep even without a breeze.
Sunday, still light, 5-8kts, took all day to sail to next anchorage.
Monday, beautiful, gorgeous sunshiney day, steady 10 kts, put 35 Nm on the
knotlog but moored only 5 miles from previous night. Tied to a vacant
mooring ball. First time using a mooring. Kinda nice not having to weigh
anchor in the morn.
Tuesday, unclipped mooring, sailing through the cove I could see the bay up
ahead was darker, windier, and lots of white capped waves. Put reef in main
and rolled the genny in to about 90% and went close hauled smashing through
the waves. Looked at the knot log and saw 7.1 kts. (previous best was 7 )
Pulled the main in some, headed down a bit , 7.2 then jumped to 7.4 and
finaly 7.5. A new record!

Later in the week sailed through some horrific T-storms and some nice days
too.

Boat performed flawlessly. Hit no rocks.
Can't wait to get back on the water.

Scotty

Scott Vernon wrote...

Started out last Sat. with wind 13kts, sailed for an hour, gave up, motored
to a cove and anchored. At least it's getting cool at night to sleep even
without a breeze.

RB

Pulled the main in some, headed down a bit , 7.2 then jumped to 7.4 and
finaly 7.5. A new record!

Wow. That's our average this week!

RB

Unless there are witnesses on board - then your boat seems a lot slower.



"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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Pulled the main in some, headed down a bit , 7.2 then jumped to 7.4 and
finaly 7.5. A new record!

Wow. That's our average this week!

RB

Nutsy,

That average speed you're talking about, is that with a reefed main and
1/4 rolled Jib?

Tuesday was easily the best day of the week...sailed out to Port Washington and
back making 7.5 knots the whole way. Probaby the best sailing day I saw all
year.

RB

Tuesday was easily the best day of the week...sailed out to Port Washington
and
back making 7.5 knots the whole way.

WIth your theoretical hull speed of 6.7 kn, you must have been surfing those
big LIS rollers.

Tuesday was easily the best day of the week...sailed out to Port Washington
and
back making 7.5 knots the whole way.

WIth your theoretical hull speed of 6.7 kn, you must have been surfing those
big LIS rollers.

So if you think THS is a rule, then Scotty, Donal, Neal, Mooron and everyone
else here is a liar.
The C&C 32 easily breaks 7 knots and so did Ghost.

RB