A good way to end a crummy week - a sailing video
 

Hopefully I'll be on my boat this weekend

http://www.youtube.com/v/0vPrb_ydghA&rel=1

VERY cool, how many knots you figure? 20?

cool vid :)

Sitting here in 15 degree RI - that looks pretty nice and gives me hope that, yes, summer will return sometime. I'll have to show that to my son, he's moving up to 420s this season, but hasn't really been bitten by the bug yet. He likes it, but he doesn't love it. I think an afternoon on a Tornado might push him over the edge. :D

I tried a cat for the first time this past summer. I swear I could of had a martini while sailing it in 20 knots of wind. It was much less exciting than when I used to race scows like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwSyOmYyMsY&feature=related

Speedy:)

Can't wait for summer

No boat I have. This will have to do.

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Back in the day - I raced a 505 - no cup holders

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One GREAT day in my life? Taking on a 20' cat in my 15' Chrysler's "Mutineer" monohull... in a high mountain lake. I tacked the SOB to death upwind...reading catspaws well, I whupped his ass..he dumped, didn't see the shift coming...Equal skipper skills? Mono vs. Cat? Cat wins, speed wise, every time...Cats don't point well, but omygod do they have speed! If crossing oceans were my goal? Monohull!

Iedit) Jeremy? Isn't it some kind of rush when you begin to plane in a monohull??? I never did trapeze...was too old when I started sailing to pull that off. Lack of upper body strength at age 50 plus..

Here's another one - great music too

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Jeremy? You probably don't know how much I miss dinghy sailing...Only way I can describe it? I miss my old mutineer more than I miss my '72 911S...

2nd video? Look a lot like Columbia river sailing...up by Hood River??? (edit)..those who have never done it..even in the limited manner as I did it? They'll never understand. Thank you for providing the eye candy.

Boy isn't that the truth? If you can sail a dingy you can sail anything! Sailed dowry dingies. I owned a Melonseed also, beautiful little yacht.
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If you were closer - I'd take you sailing in the San Juan 24 Paul - she's no dingy but she goes pretty well.

Mark? The gaff rig must have made things even more interesting???

and I'd take you up on the offer :D thanks

I'd LOVE that! Only other ballasted boat sailing I've done was aboard a
57' (LOD) wooden gaff rigged ketch, from the BVI's to the Caicos....I never had the guts to fly my Mutineer's spinnaker. The high lake I sailed on??? No Schmidt, 180 degree wind shifts were not uncommon. You really had to keep your ears tuned to pressure changes, and your eyes open for cats paws...

An Aussie who started me out told me that if I could learn to sail my mutineer on this high lake, I'd understand how sail works anywhere in the world...

Scows? An east coast racing class, right? The monohull must, by rule, be able to fit inside a crate of a certain size? Man, that has to evolve into some interesting designs...
:D

Great video

I hope too be on my boat this weekend too, too bad I'll be scraping and sanding.... In the water in 5 weeks

Yes indeed. You could adjust the luff of the sail with it. Again she was a beautiful little yacht. The spars were all Douglas Fir, all the trim inboard was teak. The boat is fashioned after a Chesapeake Bay goose hunting boat from the late 1800's. What was really nice about her was the rigging time. The dinghy took what, two guys 15-20 minutes or so? "BadSeed", the name of mine could be rigged in litterly maybe 10 minutes by myself. Dang, I have to stop talking about her, I'm starting to miss it :(

You're making me cry.

I still have to paint the hull & bottom. Price of Awlgrip went up $70 between last November and now....WTF?

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Boy, that's a pretty boat.

The Tornados are awesomely fast boats, they used to be on the same course as us at CORK. You had to adjust your sightlines way off to the sides to keep track of them when converging on a mark.

Problem is when it really kicks up there's no where to hide, 1 day there were 10 ft seas and 30 - 40 knots of wind, the Canadian cost Guard ended up having to go out for the whole fleet. It was a nasty day

Agreed, a true beauty. I started dinghy sailing as a training tool for a bigger boat. After a few years, it sunk in...bigger boats were more hassles. Me too, I miss it. I still have many found memories. We gave the boat to our daughter when Cindy was unable to sail any more...:(

Thanks Jim. A fellow in Marshfield Ma. builds them. Pricey but yes beautiful lines. I sailed her at Mystic Seaport & off Barn Island.

Thanks pwd. That's what I did also, learned to sail in a dinghy. You can sail anything if you can sail a bathtub!

Amen to that - I started off in Sunfish - went to 5o5's and Flying dutchmen - then to Venture, Lancers, soling, echels, then 420's and 470's and lasers. Then I took a little break, then on to a Sweden 34, a cal 30 and an endevour 41. Then bought a Thistle, fixed it up and sailed and raced that for a few years. Then went back to racing sunfish. Then bought the San Juan.

Although I intended to take the SJ24 out this Saturday - actually the wind was non existent - so I took the kids out in the other boat to get some bait - Oh well - at least we got on the water.

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Damned straight wake...your daughter steers well. :)

Uh a stink pot, you should be ashamed of yourself . :D The hound a bull terrier?