[Public-List] Had a nice weekend

[Gordon Laco]

Good morning Chris -

Have we been able to ship the order of 12mm braided hemp coloured line that
Jim Spurr at MMM is awaiting? (I've got to get another Langman catalogue so
I can be sure of their new names for the various lines)

G



On 22/07/13 11:57 AM, "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> Hello gang - 
> 
> Caroline and I had a nice weekend ­ finally got away sailing for the first
> time this summer.  Somehow I allowed myself to get booked up with business
> obligations nearly every single weekend so far.
> 
> Saturday morning we departed Midland Bay Sailing Club and headed over to the
> local marina to top up our fuel tank.  The newly freed-up throttle gave us
> back our full mobility under power so wiggling in to the available spot on
> the wharf between the giant power hogs was fun.    At the marina¹s fuel dock
> we met a friend who said they were heading out for the weekend too, and
> while the fuel was being pumped, we set a rendezvous for Sandy Bay on
> Christian Island. (this is generally understood to be the bay Gordon
> Lightfoot sings about in his sailing song ŒChristian Island¹.  I hope it¹s
> true)
> 
> Away we went, hoping to keep ahead of our friends in their much larger
> yacht.  We had a thrashing close reach north after rounding Midland Point,
> just able to lay the course north in the 15- 20knots of wind.   While
> crossing Penetanguishene Bay, we got the usual blaster of wind out of it so
> we tucked a reef in the main.  Much more comfortable, and with speed
> undiminished we continued north and galloped up to Adams Point by noon,
> where we had to start making ground upwind to the west toward the big
> islands.  We did a couple of boards beating hard on the wind but found there
> was a lot more west than north in the increasing wind, and we were really
> driving hard to weather in a chop.   We were really charging along but it
> was getting to be quite wet with all the spray flying.
> 
> Caroline and I had a discussion and decided that while we could keep going,
> we¹d not arrive at Sandy Bay until late in the afternoon.  We considered a
> lovely bay we know that was under our lee (Bone Island¹s so called ³Hockey
> Stick Bay²).   The thought of coming to anchor soon in a beautiful quiet
> anchorage opposed to beating to windward for many hours in a rising wind and
> sea weakened our resolve.... We put the helm up and blasted back downwind.
> Eventually we found our friends slogging up behind us.  A shouted
> conversation confirmed they wanted to keep going (made of sterner stuff, I
> guess), so we parted waving cheerily.  Forty-five minutes later we were at
> anchor at Bone, having sailed there on an exhilarating reach with huge bow
> and quarter waves.
> 
> We settled in and got down to concentrating on shrimp eating, book reading
> and of course snoozing....every time I drowsily regained consciousness I
> lazily wondered how our friends were doing bashing to windward... Had a nice
> supper followed by cocktails. A passer-by in a dinghy complimented SURPRISE
> on her looks, saw a hawk fishing, none of the motor boats in the anchorage
> ran generators for more than a few moments... Perfect.
> 
> Sunday, after a languid breakfast, we sailed off our hook and worked
> SURPRISE in light air back out toward the open.  We ended up motoring up
> Severn Sound to Midland, but I have to say I was delighted that I had my
> engine¹s full range of power back so we enjoyed it, telling ourselves the
> long run under power was good for our batteries.  We arrived in Midland Bay
> by early afternoon so rather than end our trip, we dropped anchor in Mundy¹s
> Bay across from the club and settled down to more book reading a bit of
> swimming and napping before motoring over to the club before supper time.
> 
> It was a very nice sailing weekend ­ and about time for us!
> 
> Gord
> #426 Surprise
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