Total Distance: 12 Miles Under Sail: 12
Average Speed: 3.43 kts
Conditions: Clear, 75-80 F, Wind South at 5-10 kts, Seas 1-2 ft
Girls Day on the Water
It is so nice to meet friends who I have chatted on the internet for a time. Suky Cannon came to Miami area as crew on a catamaran. Another true female sailor. She is on her way to Cuba to do humanitarian work with the skipper of the boat she is on. Like Gary before, she is from the Boston area and of course knows Gary as well.
Suky and I launched out of the marina around 1 pm in very light winds' around 4-8 knots all day. This was going to be a ghosting along sail, nice and easy. Rhapsody in Blue handled the light winds in style, doing around 4-4.5 knots all day. She did me proud. This allowed us to perfect the "Art of doing nothing" in the cockpit sports chairs of doing nothing. We chatting along most of the afternoon, in girl talk. Glorious!
We raised the asymmetrical sail for the run home. I had the same problems as before with the sailing twisting coming out of the ATN sock. After some effort, I got the sail to fill and had a nice sail back home. I have been giving a lot of thought on this sail because also I have problems raising the sail, getting it over the head of the jib stay. The solution is not to raise the ATN sock running with the wind, but with the wind on quarter port bow to blow the ATN sock on the side of the mast to get the base above the jib stay. Stay tune for further developments.
After docking, with a gorgeous setting sunset, can we all say "Sundowers"!. Gill, Jay, Eduardo and Gariclia joins us toasting the day away. Fun time to be had by all. A great way to end a perfect day.