Friday night as we were pulling in to New Bern an old
friend called to invite me out sailing on Saturday on his
boat, a Columbia 8.7 which he has restored beautifully.

Great wind all week, then Saturday morning there was only a
light wind. So what, we were ghosting out the creek into the
river when my cell phone rang. It was Katysails, they were
out in Chanteuse just around the corner.

The wind died. We coasted to stop, then the boat kind of
spin at random. Good thing we weren't in a hurry. A faint
breeze started and enabled us to gybe over towards Katy &
Mr. Sails. We than started sailing along together, talking
about various pleasant things.

My friend also took some very good pictures of Chanteuse
with his Nikon digital camera, which I am hoping to get
copies of & forward to them.

It becamse apparent that the Kirie Elite is slightly faster
than the Columbia, at least in ghosting conditions... can't
say I was surprised. They pulled ahead and then tacked away
from Hampton Shoal, just as I was about to call & warn them.
The breeze continued to build and we sailed for another
couple of hours, taking some more pictures of other peoples
boats too. It would have been nice to stay longer, but my
wife was working on our own boat & I didn't want to leave
her in the lurch for the whole day.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Bwahahahahahahah a little girl STOMPED your butt sailing today...;0)

Oh well sounds like you had a blast. I stayed in and worked in tuning
the La Brisa. Got a nice headsail off a Snipe. Heading out early in the
morning tomorrow. Suppose to be foggy and 10 kts!

Joe

Joe wrote:
Bwahahahahahahah a little girl STOMPED your butt sailing today...;0)


I dunno about stomped, and I don't think Paul Elvstrom &
Buddy Melges together could have made our boat go faster
than theirs.

If you race in any serious competition, you will meet girls
& Frenchmen who are very good sailors. No matter how good
you are, some days some of them will beat you.

I've met a few sailors who claimed to have never lost a
race. I've never met one who said that, who had won anything
big.

Oh well sounds like you had a blast.

We had fun.

... I stayed in and worked in tuning
the La Brisa. Got a nice headsail off a Snipe. Heading out early in the
morning tomorrow. Suppose to be foggy and 10 kts!


Monday morning sail... hmm, I like it. Doesn't 10 knots of
wind blow the fog away? Good luck with the Snipe jib.

DSK

A man after my own heart, out sailing while the wife works
on his boat.

You da man, Doug!

Scotty


"DSK" wrote
The breeze continued to build and we sailed for another
couple of hours, taking some more pictures of other
peoples
boats too. It would have been nice to stay longer, but my
wife was working on our own boat & I didn't want to leave
her in the lurch for the whole day.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

hEADING OUT IN 5 MIN....no fog, wind is perfect

Joe

eNJOY!


"Joe" wrote in message
ups.com...
hEADING OUT IN 5 MIN....no fog, wind is perfect

Joe

DSK wrote:
Friday night as we were pulling in to New Bern an old friend called to
invite me out sailing on Saturday on his boat, a Columbia 8.7 which he
has restored beautifully.

Great wind all week, then Saturday morning there was only a light wind.
So what, we were ghosting out the creek into the river when my cell
phone rang. It was Katysails, they were out in Chanteuse just around the
corner.

The wind died. We coasted to stop, then the boat kind of spin at random.
Good thing we weren't in a hurry. A faint breeze started and enabled us
to gybe over towards Katy & Mr. Sails. We than started sailing along
together, talking about various pleasant things.

My friend also took some very good pictures of Chanteuse with his Nikon
digital camera, which I am hoping to get copies of & forward to them.

It becamse apparent that the Kirie Elite is slightly faster than the
Columbia, at least in ghosting conditions... can't say I was surprised.
They pulled ahead and then tacked away from Hampton Shoal, just as I was
about to call & warn them. The breeze continued to build and we sailed
for another couple of hours, taking some more pictures of other peoples
boats too. It would have been nice to stay longer, but my wife was
working on our own boat & I didn't want to leave her in the lurch for
the whole day.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King


Yeah, we were watching the depth gauge and when it started to creep
down we decided it was time too tack outta Dodge...

DSK wrote:
katy wrote:
Yeah, we were watching the depth gauge and when it started to creep
down we decided it was time too tack outta Dodge...

Gotta give you all credit, many people freak out when sailing in water
that's only 1 or 2' deeper than their keels.

Were you all back in the barn by the time the wind built up to 15? By
the time Jimmy & I got in, we had rolled up some of that big genoa.

DSK

No, we hit that going bacl...set the sails wing and wing and just
pushed merrily down the river...doused them in front of Hwy 17...the
swing bridge still makes me nervous...the guy starts closing it up
when you're still in the bridge channel sometimes...

I did! The water was a gunblue with a heavy silver quit like sky, Wind
was steady as a rock first hour out of the north at 10. Sailed to the
new high rise condo site, by the park so Skipper could bark at the
colored folks crabbing. Across the lake to the South the stern wake
sounded like one of the water falls in a big hot tub, Kingfishers
diving all arounds us. On the south sside we sailed by Pelican pilons,
each had a white or Brown Pelican preening feathers from a long night
of fishing, then it happened, the wind just about stopped, the water
fall wake turned into a few slow whirlpools spinning off the transom.
had to row off the south shore and caught just enough breeze to barely
make it back to the slip. Once I doused and stowed the sails the wind
started picking back up :0( The Snipe 125% head sail was great.

Might head back out after work.

Joe

No... no grass fires around here. Along the ICW they burn off the brush
once a year.

Had some kids from the apartment complex nect to the marina start a
fire on a raft they had. They did it late at night next to a big field
of dry cane here in the marina. I made them put it out and one called
me an asshole and took out running. The next moring the wind was out of
the north so I cut the raft loose to blow back to a marina on the other
side of the lake. End of problem.

Joe