[Public-List] Summer

[David Van Denburgh via Public-List]

As Don Casey calls it in "This Old Boat," I was up to "scratch and itch" - i.e., sanding/grinding and fiberglassing. It sounds like you had a much more relaxing summer than I. I did manage to sail a few times, however, including racing for the first time in the Chicago-Mackinac Race - unfortunately not aboard a plastic classic but aboard a Catalina 400. No grouching here, though. Despite the lack of sailing, I had a great summer working on Tradewinds: http://alberg30project.blogspot.com/  And there was some of this: http://ariel-cd36.org/wordpress/

David

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Enough with the grouching about through-hulls and horror-stories about cranes dropping boats. What did everybody get up to this summer?

My highlights include:

Sailing almost every day of the summer cruise. Only using the engine to get in and out of anchorages and marinas, Only one day was a long motor. This almost never happens in the Pacific Northwest, the winds often very light.

Anchoring in the warm, gin-clear water of Tribune Bay on Hornby Island. Swimming in the warm, gin-clear water This also almost never happens in the Pacific Northwest. The water is mostly freezing.

Drinking cold, gin-clear gin in the cockpit, watching the sunset in Lyall Harbour. Admittedly, this happens relatively often in the Pacific Northwest.

The Atomic 4 fixing itself over the course of the cruise.

Passing a 10m Farr-design in one of those informal not-really-a-race-we-just-happen-to-be-going-in-the-same-direction-but
we-are-both-paying-a-lot-more-attention-to-the-sails-than-if
we-were-just-cruising races.

SG


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