Micheal, Kris, and John made a short walk to the local grocery store to provision for the trip.
Kevin and I headed to West Marine to get some nuts/bolts for the leach block on the head on the mainsail. Also stopped at Ace Hardware and CSV Pharmacy.
HOT as HECK!
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| Look what motor sailed by: a Catalina 22 For those of you who don't know, this was my first sailboat, and I still race her today! |
Once we got everything organized, we dropped our mooring ball and headed out the harbour.
We had a great sail with west wind 15-20 knots, broad reach so we hoisted Dirk's brand new never flown chute. He was pleased with the sail. We practiced several gybes.
It is a good thing we did because the topping lift for the pole had jumped it's shiv and was jammed. We could not dip pole gybe the spinnaker. We had to use a spare jib halyard. Would rather have found this out now, than on the race course. The block to raise the inboard end of the pole was also broken, making it difficult to raise the inboard end of the pole up under load.
Beating back, the winds had picked up over 25 knots, so we dropped her and hoisted the Dacron #3. We also practiced putting in a reef in the mainsail. We found that the running backstays were also catching on the boom.
Coming back to the harbour, we say some young boys tending their lobster traps.
Just look at the smiles on their faces!
There were lobster traps all around the harbour and out on the race start.
Coming back in we past a 90ft rocket from New York called Rambler:
Yes, that is their 40ft tender with two motors on it!
Coming back in we saw a Canadian boat coming out under spinnaker:
Dirk recognized the boat from Nova Scotia: brand new Jeanneau 409. We met many of the crew on land later in the trip. They were in the cruising division.
Great afternoon on the water.
Trip Odometer: 24.9 miles
Moving Average: 7.0 knots (!!!)
Moving Time: 03:34:00
Google Earth Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2013/20130706.kmz
Once back on the mooring ball, we hoisted Kris up the mast to troubleshoot the spinnaker topping lift. The shiv was worn; no time for a replacement. Kris also rigging up some shock chords half way up the mast to keep the running back stays from catching on the boom.
Dinner at the Landing was AWESOME.
Of course I had lobster!
We all went again to Maddie's bar for a nightcap. VERY BUSY
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