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nice here, too. 65 and sunny, bucolic trip to Stowe for dinner and special beers, time for some deck sitting and book reading.
 
what I learned over the weekend. Small craft warnings should be taken seriously. Sailing out of the Coan River into the Potomac Saturday completely uneventful until about 2 pm when a 20 knot squall caught us with our sails up and having just a little too much fun, spinning our sailing yarns. If someone finds my hat with the "St. Johns Island" embroidery please return it. I really liked that hat.
 
CameronBlue said:
what I learned over the weekend. Small craft warnings should be taken seriously. Sailing out of the Coan River into the Potomac Saturday completely uneventful until about 2 pm when a 20 knot squall caught us with our sails up and having just a little too much fun, spinning our sailing yarns. If someone finds my hat with the "St. Johns Island" embroidery please return it. I really liked that hat.
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What sort of boat were you sailing?

-jk
 
38 Cheoy Lee. It's not the most nimble of boats, hull speed is about 5 knots, maybe 6 with no barnacles, but I was impressed with how it responded in heavy seas (for a small boat.) We were in white caps, swells 3-5 feet and dropped a rail below the water briefly, with plenty of deck wash, list about 50-55 degrees, and she recovered well. Below deck the galley was awash in Woodford Reserve which was pretty annoying, but I was smart enough to leave the Mac 18 at the dock.
 
The last bastion of the dot matrix printer: The rental counter at Newark Airport. The sound shocked me and took me back thirty years at the same time.
 
CameronBlue said:
38 Cheoy Lee. It's not the most nimble of boats, hull speed is about 5 knots, maybe 6 with no barnacles, but I was impressed with how it responded in heavy seas (for a small boat.) We were in white caps, swells 3-5 feet and dropped a rail below the water briefly, with plenty of deck wash, list about 50-55 degrees, and she recovered well. Below deck the galley was awash in Woodford Reserve which was pretty annoying, but I was smart enough to leave the Mac 18 at the dock.
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Not that small a boat!

Once upon a time, I spent a few years crewing on a little S2 7.9 in the West River and the CBYRA. We qualified to compete in the Caribbean (St Thomas?) but it was the same weekend as the Final Four in 2001. Priorities!

-jk
 
YmoBeThere said:
This wisdom of this decision grows with time.
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I’m still jealous.
-jk said:
Not that small a boat!

Once upon a time, I spent a few years crewing on a little S2 7.9 in the West River and the CBYRA. We qualified to compete in the Caribbean (St Thomas?) but it was the same weekend as the Final Four in 2001. Priorities!

-jk
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Haven’t crewed a 7.9 so I can’t speak with any authority but they seem to be ideal recreational racing boats that will test your seamanship. I know you had a blast. Have you ever raced in the Governor’s Cup?
 
I was doing a zoom yesterday on my porch when a woman who is not my neighbor emerged from my neighbors’ shrubbery. She was short, determined and English. She was yelling, “Pudding!!!” Over and over again.

I had to excuse myself and ask if everything was okay. She was looking for her dog, the aforementioned pudding. Sorry, haven’t seen him but what type am I looking for? A little English bulldog (who at that moment came trundling out from a side bush). “Get over here you little I'm a real wanker for saying this. I'm a real wanker for saying this.!”

Alls well that ends well.
 
bundabergdevil said:
I was doing a zoom yesterday on my porch when a woman who is not my neighbor emerged from my neighbors’ shrubbery. She was short, determined and English. She was yelling, “Pudding!!!” Over and over again.

I had to excuse myself and ask if everything was okay. She was looking for her dog, the aforementioned pudding. Sorry, haven’t seen him but what type am I looking for? A little English bulldog (who at that moment came trundling out from a side bush). “Get over here you little I'm a real wanker for saying this. I'm a real wanker for saying this.!”

Alls well that ends well.
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You should have told her that if she doesn’t eat her meat, she can’t have Pudding.
 
bundabergdevil said:
I was doing a zoom yesterday on my porch when a woman who is not my neighbor emerged from my neighbors’ shrubbery. She was short, determined and English. She was yelling, “Pudding!!!” Over and over again.

I had to excuse myself and ask if everything was okay. She was looking for her dog, the aforementioned pudding. Sorry, haven’t seen him but what type am I looking for? A little English bulldog (who at that moment came trundling out from a side bush). “Get over here you little I'm a real wanker for saying this. I'm a real wanker for saying this.!”

Alls well that ends well.
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Before I grasped that she was looking for a pet, I pictured a woman simply standing in the shrubs yelling PUDDING!!!! over and over. I HAVE had neighbors like that!
 
CameronBlue said:
I’m still jealous.

Haven’t crewed a 7.9 so I can’t speak with any authority but they seem to be ideal recreational racing boats that will test your seamanship. I know you had a blast. Have you ever raced in the Governor’s Cup?
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No, only the weekly races. Our boat was stripped for racing - just enough left to be legal. We were in a handicap group (PHRF IIRC) racing against one or two other S2s and a variety of other, larger boats. There were a couple of much larger USNA boats crewed by middies; they killed us off the line, but we usually beat them on corrected time. I haven't raced in ages, alas.

Do you race much?

-jk
 
CameronBlue said:
what I learned over the weekend. Small craft warnings should be taken seriously. Sailing out of the Coan River into the Potomac Saturday completely uneventful until about 2 pm when a 20 knot squall caught us with our sails up and having just a little too much fun, spinning our sailing yarns. If someone finds my hat with the "St. Johns Island" embroidery please return it. I really liked that hat.
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I had the same thing happen while on a 52 footed with an 8 person crew off (way off) of St Croix. Being the most able bodied (and stupidest?) I went forward and took down the sail in a squall, without benefit of a life vest or safety harness*.

*Just to emphasize the “stupidest” statement.
 
-jk said:
No, only the weekly races. Our boat was stripped for racing - just enough left to be legal. We were in a handicap group (PHRF IIRC) racing against one or two other S2s and a variety of other, larger boats. There were a couple of much larger USNA boats crewed by middies; they killed us off the line, but we usually beat them on corrected time. I haven't raced in ages, alas.

Do you race much?

-jk
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Not as much as I'd like, just too many things with competing priorities. Over the last 10 years my brother and I have managed to make most of the Governor's Cup races and I've crewed (mostly I was rail meat on a boat that doesn't really require rail meat) for my cousin who owns a Sun Odyssey 40.3 a couple of times for Cowes Week around the Isle of Wight. Not much racing experience other than that except for one race with my brother-in-law who was racing a boat in the Bahamas that was owned by the only practicing gynecologist in the Northern Neck at the time.
 
CameronBlue said:
Not as much as I'd like, just too many things with competing priorities. Over the last 10 years my brother and I have managed to make most of the Governor's Cup races and I've crewed (mostly I was rail meat on a boat that doesn't really require rail meat) for my cousin who owns a Sun Odyssey 40.3 a couple of times for Cowes Week around the Isle of Wight. Not much racing experience other than that except for one race with my brother-in-law who was racing a boat in the Bahamas that was owned by the only practicing gynecologist in the Northern Neck at the time.
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Quite memorable, anyway!

-jk
 
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