Rita and I (and Bogart) headed out for a late afternoon sail.
At the dock there was 2 knots of breeze. Going out the harbour, we could see a wind line about a mile off shore, so we motored out to it. Got into 6 knots of breeze from the ESE, so we hoisted the main up and headed out on a close reach at 2 knots and turned the motor off.
We turned to the east and hoisted to the new asymmetric spinnaker. This was the first time Rita has seen it. It was awesome! Got the boat going between 4 and 5 knots on a beam reach in the 6 knot breeze.
There are many times when we are cruising that you have 6 knot breeze off the beam or aft of the beam, and you just end up motoring because with a main and poled out 135% genoa, you can only make 2 knots of boat speed. We will use this new spinnaker a LOT.
After about half a hour, the winds died down again, and the spinnaker was collapsing, so we doused it and motored back in. Rita did well flying and dousing the chute.
Looks like someone has put a marker "stick" to show the start of the Whitby Shoals. Put a waypoint in the GPS. You can see on the track were we made a dip to mark the waypoint.
Autopilot performed flawlessly.
Sorry no photos.
Trip Odometer: 5.06 miles
Moving Average: 3.7 knots
Moving Time: 01:22:00
Google Earth Track: Click Here
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