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...