Summer Sailing Thread

**CantDog** · 05-27-2007, 11:06 AM

Now that I'm moving back to DC and will be spending the majority of my freetime on the boat, I'm getting amped to sail regularly again. What are everyone's summer sailing plans? I've decided to undertake the job of tearing up the deck on our Cheoy Lee and putting a new core in and glassing the top instead of going with teak again. Its going to be a complete bitch, but the results will be great, and the boat can go for another 20 years.

**A Random Skier** · 05-27-2007, 11:17 AM

^^sounds like fun. I'll be sailling a bunch on the Jersey lakes this summer, when I'm around. Just sunfish but its still mad fun. Hopefully there will be some fun squalls this year

**springsproject** · 05-27-2007, 02:01 PM

my sailing plans are to try to make it back to CT and get out a few times with my dad on his boat. keeping the fingers crossed that I can make it happen

**nhtele** · 05-27-2007, 03:51 PM

Let's see:
Trip back to MA in August, hopefully be on the PHRF line for BBR.
Hopefully do part of Cantdog's DC to Vinalhaven delivery in Aug.
Trip to the Gorge for windsurfing in Aug.
Catch some windsurfing in Sept. on Cape Cod
Trip to Jericoacoara, Brazil for windsurfing in November

I've been missing the water for some time now - went to see the new Pirates movie and am in serious need of a nautical dose.

**laseranimal** · 05-27-2007, 05:28 PM

I'm going to attempt to get my Laser put back together and try to convince my brother to do BBR and kick his candy ass all over the course

**dirtybryan** · 05-27-2007, 05:44 PM

Mostly just plan on sailing my dads 28.5 beneteau around Lake George with beer in the cooler. First summer not working as an instructor though in a while since the commute took too long. It was a great job though when i had it.

**MOHSHSIHd** · 05-27-2007, 06:00 PM

No real sailing for me, but I will be tooling around on my dad's sailfish and 53' chris craft in july....

**bookem** · 05-27-2007, 07:04 PM

I'll be puttering around Nicola Lake in my 17' Siren, trying to find the sweet spots between piss-flat and stinking. Might trailer it west a few hours for the secong annual Shuswap cup, if work permits.

**gamma** · 05-27-2007, 08:41 PM

Was out sailing 505s this weekend.. was a friggin blast. flying in on a 3 sail reech on the wire to end the racing..

**mrw** · 05-28-2007, 08:14 AM

Zooming around Rehobeth Bay on my Hobie H16

**365wp** · 05-28-2007, 08:41 AM

The boat goes in this week. The goal for the summer is to move it from Marion to Boston so I can actually use it more than once or twice a month. Would like to start fishing, too.

Can't wait to get out on the water.

**Tippster** · 05-28-2007, 08:58 AM

Let me know if you need any help.... by which I mean if you need me to supervise.

**stompinlines** · 05-28-2007, 09:01 AM

Will be spending the summer keeping up my Pop's Hunter 27 on Lake Michigan.
Can't wait for the rank Michigan air to come landside.

**willywhit** · 05-28-2007, 09:03 AM

no wind for http://www.figawi.com/ this weekend

We almost took out the Mercury yesterday, blowing east. Gonna get the Catalina 30 down to the cape soon.
Kitesurfing and more kitesurfing...come on WIND !!!!

**biggins** · 05-28-2007, 09:35 AM

I plan on listening to a lot of Christopher Cross.

**Rose** · 05-28-2007, 09:46 AM

Sailing my Laser at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

**Ty_Webb** · 05-28-2007, 09:57 AM

Wait a minute Rose, thats where I grew up. Sailed E's and MC's for the last few years. We probably know some of the same people if not one and other. My name is Alex Sheldon, ring a bell?

**CantDog** · 05-28-2007, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by willywhit

no wind for http://www.figawi.com/ this weekend

We almost took out the Mercury yesterday, blowing east. Gonna get the Catalina 30 down to the cape soon.
Kitesurfing and more kitesurfing...come on WIND !!!!

There was a lot of alcohol though.

**MOHSHSIHd** · 05-28-2007, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by dirtybryan

Mostly just plan on sailing my dads 28.5 beneteau around Lake George with beer in the cooler. First summer not working as an instructor though in a while since the commute took too long. It was a great job though when i had it.

I know lake george is huge, but do you know Adam Forbes?

**C_Free** · 05-28-2007, 11:33 AM

I've been waiting for this thread

Hopefully while I am home I can get a few days out on the Sunfish in Lake Erie. I really wanted to sell the sunfish and get a Hobie 16, but I have to go back out west for some summer school.

**gamma** · 05-28-2007, 12:08 PM

check out 505 sailing.. so much fun! this is some video from the 2005 world championships, gives a good feel for the boat and its speed. it has a HUGE kite, which allows it a LOT of speed!

**elchupanebre4** · 05-28-2007, 12:08 PM

I'm starting my ASA Certifications . My Hobie 14 Turbo is stuck in Michigan, so can't sail that, but the Sailing Center where I live has a deal that ASA 101-106 cost $2K with a ton of free rentals, and from talking to the manager it sounds like he'll put me on a payment plan to get through it. The last class is a 4.5 day sail to Catalina and thereabouts, with a nighttime circumnavigation of the Island. Don't know if I'll finish by the end of summer, but you unlike most places in the states you can sail all year round wihtout being miserable during the winter.

**JTripodi** · 05-28-2007, 12:12 PM

Funny thread to find here, but yes it's a fine thing to think about to get over the post season blues.

This is our boat Senta, a 53' cutter designed by Philip Rhodes, which was built in 1937. It is our home. We did all the exterior bright work and stripped and revarnished the spars last spring, summer and fall. This year we plan to sail from New Rochelle up to Maine.

We also race our Narrasketuck, the Rosa Luxemburg, which is a sort of Star with a centerboard and pretty much is the largest one design fleet left racing on the Great South Bay of Long Island. A real blast, and competitive group.

http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t...aLuxemburg.jpg

My old winter frostbiteing boat Balkunin, an El Toro, is a lot of fun in the evenings when I have nothing else to do.

http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t...t=Balkunin.jpg

PS. First time I've ever tried to post pictures and all I see are the links, so sorry in advance if I've screwed up.

**JTripodi** · 05-28-2007, 12:15 PM

Well, I just posted, and see the links except for the first one, so here it is

http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t...rent=Senta.jpg

How does everyone get all their beautiful TR pictures that I've been enjoying so much to show up?

**nhtele** · 05-28-2007, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by JTripodi

Well, I just posted, and see the links except for the first one, so here it is

http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t...rent=Senta.jpg

How does everyone get all their beautiful TR pictures that I've been enjoying so much to show up?

Image tags

I think you've got the link from the secure section of photobucket so it doesn't link. Photobucket has a little line under all the photos that automatically formats the link for use in forums like this one.