What a great day for a sail

[snooks]

Well if the rest of 2010 is like today was it will be a great year for sailing! Bright sunshine, 15-20 knots on the beam, a beautiful day to be on the water.

Fair winds to everyone out there, may all your sailing be as good as ours was today

 

[Blue5]

Well if the rest of 2010 is like today was it will be a great year for sailing! Bright sunshine, 15-20 knots on the beam, a beautiful day to be on the water.

Fair winds to everyone out there, may all your sailing be as good as ours was today

Hmm, green with envy but might have to give it a go tommorrow

 

[snooks]

Hmm, green with envy but might have to give it a go tommorrow

You might want to wrap up warm, unless you're somewhere hot and sunny of course.

Just the sail today was worth keeping her in for. Pure magic

 

[photodog]

Without pictures how do we know you are not just making this up?

 

[lw395]

Without pictures how do we know you are not just making this up?

Even the pictures are made up nowadays, you'll just have to trust us!
A great day to be out on the water even it was only a quick dinghy race for me.

 

[snooks]

Here you go, just as the wind was fading on the way to Portsmouth

 

[photodog]

Thats better!

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

We did sail today - Newtown Creek actually, but it was far too cold for my camera!

I also managed to do an almost complete fill of fuel on the exact day that VAT went up - awesomely bad timing.

 

[l'escargot]

...Bright sunshine, 15-20 knots on the beam, a beautiful day to be on the water...

May have been on the beam for you, we had it bang on the nose from Cowes to Hamble. What's the odds of it still being from the north on Sunday for the trip back - a dead run all the way back to Newport would be nice.

Certainly cold enough to freeze the proverbials once the sun dipped.

 

[Jamesuk]

It was indeed a lovely day crisp air, bacon sandwiches and 5 layers of Sailing clothing from Baselayer to outer. Although must find another method of warming the feet, 2 thin socks and HPX boots just didnt cut the mustard today!

 

[snooks]

Not quite so rosy this morning, ice on the inside of the window, gas ran out, gas locker lid frozen shut, decks of ice, at least the heating is working wonders

 

[bendyone]

Plymouth Yesterday

 

[l'escargot]

Not quite so rosy this morning, ice on the inside of the window, gas ran out, gas locker lid frozen shut, decks of ice, at least the heating is working wonders

Plugged in the oil filled rad and the fan heater and got the saloon up to 70 degrees - different story in the heads with frost on the inside. Lovely bright day in the Hamble but going to be cold again tonight.

 

[Blue5]

Not quite so rosy this morning, ice on the inside of the window, gas ran out, gas locker lid frozen shut, decks of ice, at least the heating is working wonders

Great sail today until we turned to beat back, that was cold, two hours was plenty long enough, then like you the bl**dy gas ran out.......................grrrrrrrrrr

 

[1bobt]

Here you go, just as the wind was fading on the way to Portsmouth

How do we know ?There no date on the bottom of pic`s that you get with a proper camera. Bullshi--r you are probably in bed

cheers bobt

 

[awol]

35kt winds, snow showers, wind agin spring tide and a wee tad chilly. Worse bit was getting home passed all the cars that cannae drive on sheet ice.

 

[matt1]

15-20 knots??? You were lucky, we had no more than 12 knots further west than you Snooks in the central solent :-(

Agree...great day to be on the water and quite safe once we had swooshed a few buckets of seawater over the deck....the frost was nearly an inch thick!! Nice to be in Cowes and not have to fight for a berth.

Next year I will try not to leave it so late in the new year to go sailing for thr first time ;-)

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Got out today, it was great .... only saw 4 other boats sailing !

Lymington to Cowes, and back, 18kts of wind both ways. 10kts SOG on the way back on a dead run

A wonderful bowl of soup and pint of Guiness in the Anchor in Cowes, too.

Back in our marina at 1600, the ice was still on the pontoon from the morning. Brrrrr.

Roll on the next time.

 

[stav]

Got out yesterday and sailed from Jersey to Sark, 20 miles each way. Run/reach all the way there with a hazy sky and amazing visability. Coming back was 13 to 19 knts pretty much on the nose, but still a good sail until I reached the SW corner of Jersey and had the hardest hour or so of sailing on my own pretty much ever. With the tide giving me 9.5 knts over the ground a nasty step chop and 30 kts plus over the deck. Ended up with half the genoa rolled away and double reefed main and still struggled to get in to the channel. Once out of the bigger seas and starting to get dark put the engine on and gunned it home.

The only damage a torn sail batten pocket (caught on the lazy jacks) and a broken plastic winch handle which filed just as I finished putting in the second reef.

The roller genoa was a blessing and a curse: easy to shorten sail but the slghty baggy shape certainly made it harder to make progress. I had thought about setting the No3 on the detachable stay before turning the corner: He who hesitates......

Overall though a great sail and certainly felt alive and modern sailing clothing is the best thing to be developed in the last 15 years!