Made the mistake of joining several “cheap sailboats for sale” Facebook groups and now I’m contemplating a fly-n-sail to somewhere stupid.
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Made the mistake of joining several “cheap sailboats for sale” Facebook groups and now I’m contemplating a fly-n-sail to somewhere stupid.
Summertime and the living is easy on Casco Bay.
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Great pics. I need to get on the water.
Tell me more about sailing with the foresail only (appears to be a Genoa in the pic).Quote:
Originally Posted by ticketchecker
We got overpowered with the main and big genny so dropped the main to come back into the harbor, weren't interested in changing head sails at the time. Genny only lets you fly it more akin to a chute downwind. We're beer drinking cruisers but that didn't keep us from parting the Wednesday night fleet like the red sea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
Thanks. Downwind only. Got it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ticketchecker
Still learning.
You can head up some, but can't point too high w/ just the headsail. Fun to experimentQuote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
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Sea breeze beats the heat… spent 5 hours sailing my peapod around a nice quiet island and it was finest kind!
I've been using the PFDs at the sailing center when heading out but by the time I get back to the mooring, drop and gather the jib, flake and store the mainsail, etc. I'm sweating my balls off under that vest. I'm thinking of an auto/manual inflatable as a result. Cabela's has them for $60 and they go up quickly after that. Does anyone have experience with these types of lifevests?
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We use similar ones from West Marine on Les' boat but only when the weather gets real chippy or at night.
Not tried that brand but inflatable is definitely the way to go. Have a couple of West Marine ones.
You haven’t lived until one of those auto-inflates when you get doused by a green wave in the cockpit at night. Certainly woke me up!
They are convenient, but do have limitations. Maybe they have gotten better in the last decade or so.
Most people also wear them too loose to be effective if you really need it. I get it, they want to be comfortable.
Found a AM inflatable PFDwith a recharge kit at a great price.
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Barely a whiff of breeze until we hit the mooring on our return. [emoji35]
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Wasn't much better on Saturday. Winds held at around 7kts until we got all the way across the lake and then died. A 3 hour race ended up taking 6.
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Nice afternoon in the PeaPod with my wife. We sailed down to the trailhead for a hike. Surf and Turf
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Doubled the speed on the return with some rowing added in as the sun went down.
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^^^Awesome. We got out for a sunset sail tonight as well.
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Loving the stoke in here! Awesome!!
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Out for a very light wind cruise with our youngest. She didn't seem to mind the doldrums. She loved holding the mainsheet and did some driving too.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...71738fe2c8.jpg
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"Free boat", which usually means expensive disaster, turned out to be a great little Lazer that one of my wife's patients gave to us for the kids. 3 hours of elbow grease by the kiddos and they were ripping around the harbor with smiles on their faces. Made me even happier to see (with the sweat equity they put into it) that they were ticked off when some other kids were jumping around on it on shore. They earned the right to that dismay...
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^^^ Well Done! Glad your kids are into it.
Free boats can often be the most expensive ones.
Nice work.
That's awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by BCR
Unsolicited advice: the Cunningham should go straight down to the cleat not around the mast. Some vang tension will keep your kids from getting thwacked. More advanced rigging is available on the interwebs.
Lasers are great boats. They will learn a lot and have a blast doing it!! Stoked!
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Good eye - there is a burr I have to file down on the aft of the mast that I was worried about chaffing the Cunningham. Vang won't hold fast, have to play with it next weekend. Needs a clew tie or strap too. Wanted to get them out on it immediately though as they put in the work without complaint. All in all, not bad for what I thought was going to be a big project.Quote:
Originally Posted by skinipenem
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Look at them go! Making lifetime memories right there. Sweet!Quote:
Originally Posted by BCR
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Great stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by BCR
Free Laser is a great Laser!
Normally a 12+ hour race...the poor wind forecast caused the race committee to shorten the course. Winds were better than forecast but if we had done the full course, we would have finished well after midnight. The sunset was amazing...
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We were first across the line in our class (jib and main, no spinnaker). Haven't seen the results with handicaps applied.
Skipper/owner in the pic. He's my neighbor and more than occasional ski buddy.
^^^who left the handle in the jib winch???
Great sunset last night!
It was a beauty morning on the lake today with a newb sailor friend. He loved it and will be back. That’s good because more crew is better., even if he doesn't know how to run a sheet around a winch.
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We were on an 8-mile reach. Leaving the handle in there makes it easy to fine tune trim. It was a 155 genoa so you can't trim by hand in anything bigger than 5 knots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
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Back to work hauling boats for the season. Not the most efficient using cradles, tide, and dragging them up the beach with my truck but I charge a healthy rate. Gotta fill up the ski account this time of year!
Got to end the season (unless we get some nice days this Winter for frostbiting) with a hairy 19 mile race in the remnants of Ian this weekend in the Vanderbilt Cup. 4-5 foot seas around the first mark and a steady 20kt wind made for some sporty conditions. An unfavorable rating and the fact that we didn't think the race would go off so we didn't have the bottom cleaned or change out the cruising head sail, led to not making the podium, but we beat the 2/3s of the boats that scratched due to the weather, so there's definitely that.
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^ Looks sporty.
Sometimes your Kids just get you and nail the Christmas present! Can’t wait to stroll the dock this Summer when the brick red pant crew comes to rusticate…
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The trailer for the Netflix Untold documentary that we watched as a family at Thanksgiving for reference:
And another from Aussie TV:
Untold is great!
Lol.
I'm not saying that this will end as one of those stories of a guy turning a paperclip into a car by trading up, but made a nice even off-season swap (sale and purchase) of the free Lazer into a 420. Needs a little work, but overall in better condition than the Lazer, bigger to hold more of our kiddos, and our oldest can race it this year, forgoing the need to rent a boat. Plus (as with any warm weather or rear wheel drive purchase it seems) it brought about a thoroughly snowy March, so we get to extend the ski season nicely.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
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Nice work! 420s take me back. Look forward to seeing the stoke.
Yeah! Talk about memories. Much time spent in both those boats.
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