It felt a bit Septemberish, gray skies & cool weather, but the wind was great (more in the low teens than the 5-10 kts the forecast had called for) and Holly & Jim set a good course with the windward leg being the sail to our favorite lunch beach on Ruffle bar, where all the work getting there made my empanada lunch taste extra extra good, and then the trip home again being a big looping S around Ruffle Bar & Canarsie Pol. The trip home was awesome, all reaching & running, and with the wind & the waves, we flew! I felt like I was getting more speed out of Swampfox & maintaining it for longer periods of time than I've managed before in a Sunfish - usually I have a few fantastic moments then do something to foul up whatever I was doing right, but today there were long stretches where things were going great.
I did learn one really good lesson today - I have a light wetsuit top that just needs to always be part of my sailing kit. The weather wasn't quite as warm or sunny as the last forecast I'd seen had been talking about & I was lucky Holly had a spare top because the day (and especially the windward leg) would've been a chilly one if she hadn't had that for me.
I didn't take a lot of pictures because conditions were just enough that the sailing really required two hands & full attention, but here were the few I did.
I can't show you pictures of one of the "end" results but I can tell you that I will be needing a cushion for the next few days! :D
3 comments:
Water time is a fine thing. Especially when your boat does some of the hard work for you!
That looks like such a fun boat. Maybe I should get me something like that for when I sail solo.
Sunfish are FUN Fish!
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