You know you're sailing on a lake ...

[JumbleDuck]

... when the shroud telltales are blowing directly towards each other. Loch Ken, this afternoon.

What the hell do the rules of the road say when you're simultaneously on port and starboard tack? I was probably supposed to give way to myself.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

You know when you are sailing downwind of some mountains when just as you've completed putting a reef in the windything is reading 4 knots and just after you've taken it out again it's reading 38.

I gave up upping and downing the sails in the end and just sailed slowly in the lulls admiring the Mourne Mountains as I passed.

 

[yachtorion]

There have been a few occasions on the river in York where we've seen two boats both running directly downwind (or both beating) towards each other in opposite directions.

 

[lpdsn]

I've twice got into a good position on a beat (once 1st & once 2nd) only to look back and see the rest of the fleet catching up under spinnaker. And that wasn't on a lake.

 

[JumbleDuck]

There have been a few occasions on the river in York where we've seen two boats both running directly downwind (or both beating) towards each other in opposite directions.

As a boy I used to sail with the Sea Scouts at Lochgoilhead, and I can remember approaching another dinghy head on, both on good fast beam reaches, both on starboard tack ... take that, IRPCS.

 

[Lakesailor]

All sorts of fun on Windermere. I've sailed a circular course from my mooring without changing tack, just following the wind shifts.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

There have been a few occasions on the river in York where we've seen two boats both running directly downwind (or both beating) towards each other in opposite directions.

The Sound of Mull is famous for that. I was there last week and the wind was all over the place.

 

[Applescruffs]

"You know you're sailing on a lake ..."

When the jobbie you've flushed down the heads is still alongside 20 mins later....

Or is that just me ?

 

[Searush]

I liked sailing the Clyde where you sail round a point as you exit a loch & still stay on the same tack. How does it do that?

 

[onesea]

I liked sailing the Clyde where you sail round a point as you exit a loch & still stay on the same tack. How does it do that?

Ah but it only happens in the Ionian!

Its become a catch phrase with one of my crew we did a charter holiday in Greece. The other charters we where talking to had sailed round the world etc etc there comment about such winds was it only happens in the Ionian.....

Since then any "not normal" winds and we must be in the Ionian...

 

[Thistle]

Racing this afternoon, sailed up behind a boat which was on a port beam reach. Hailed "Starboard". Reply: "You can't be on sta... Oh s..t, you *are* on starboard."

Don't we just love sailing on lochs!