Best Sail Of The Season
Moderator: Jim Walsh
- JWSutcliffe
- Posts: 301
- Joined: Jul 29th, '08, 22:41
- Location: CD 31 Oryx, hull #55, based in Branford CT
Best Sail Of The Season
Today was a spectacular day of sailing, probably the best of the season. Perfect conditions, and a prime example of why I love sailing a Cape Dory - a good 15 mile sail upwind in 15 knot breeze, helm locked and such good sail balance I had no need to touch the helm nearly the whole time.
Skip Sutcliffe
CD31 Oryx
CD31 Oryx
Re: Best Sail Of The Season
It was very pleasant. I sailed out of Block Island, made two tacks, and continued to Dutch Harbor on Conanicut in 17 to 20 knot winds. It's about a 20 mile trip. I was near or exceeding hull speed the entire time. I also had the benefit of a freshly scrubbed bottom. The boats, not mine.
Jim Walsh
Ex Vice Commodore
Ex Captain-Northeast Fleet
CD31 ORION
The currency of life is not money, it's time
Ex Vice Commodore
Ex Captain-Northeast Fleet
CD31 ORION
The currency of life is not money, it's time
-
- Posts: 4367
- Joined: Feb 5th, '05, 17:25
- Location: s/v LIQUIDITY, CD28. We sail from Marina Bay on Boston Harbor. Try us on channel 9.
- Contact:
Re: Best Sail Of The Season
20 miles motoring yesterday. Saturday though, we had a magnificent sail to Scituate. Wind NE at 15 kts, which gave us a two hour beat out of Boston Harbor, but then it's a series of gentle right turns. Close and broad reaching, the last ten miles were at 6 knots or better.
Fair winds, Neil
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167
Boston, MA
CDSOA member #698
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167
Boston, MA
CDSOA member #698
-
- Posts: 387
- Joined: Apr 9th, '14, 18:39
- Location: 1984 Cape Dory 22
Re: Best Sail Of The Season
Sunday was very nice on Long Island Sound off Bridgeport with a fairly steady 10 knot breeze mid-day which is unusual for these parts this time of day/year....a friend sailed past and captured me working to windward...
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
______________
Rick
1984 CD22
Excuse auto-correct typos courtesy of iOS...or simply lazy typing
Rick
1984 CD22
Excuse auto-correct typos courtesy of iOS...or simply lazy typing
-
- Posts: 4367
- Joined: Feb 5th, '05, 17:25
- Location: s/v LIQUIDITY, CD28. We sail from Marina Bay on Boston Harbor. Try us on channel 9.
- Contact:
Re: Best Sail Of The Season
You're lucky! It's rare to get a great picture like that of your own boat! I got this one by email compliments of John Ring following a trip from Salem to Boston. http://bostonsailors.blogspot.com/s2sailorlis wrote:Sunday was very nice on Long Island Sound off Bridgeport with a fairly steady 10 knot breeze mid-day which is unusual for these parts this time of day/year....a friend sailed past and captured me working to windward...
Fair winds, Neil
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167
Boston, MA
CDSOA member #698
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167
Boston, MA
CDSOA member #698
Re: Best Sail Of The Season
Neil,
You sailed to Scituate Saturday? We must have passed each other. My wife, son and I, on our CD25 'Sunset' were returning to Boston from Scituate on Saturday and YES, that was a great day to sail.
Josh
You sailed to Scituate Saturday? We must have passed each other. My wife, son and I, on our CD25 'Sunset' were returning to Boston from Scituate on Saturday and YES, that was a great day to sail.
Josh
-
- Posts: 4367
- Joined: Feb 5th, '05, 17:25
- Location: s/v LIQUIDITY, CD28. We sail from Marina Bay on Boston Harbor. Try us on channel 9.
- Contact:
Re: Best Sail Of The Season
Nope, didn't see you. We left about 11:30 and passed Harding Ledge about 2:20. It would have been easy to miss you before our last tack towards Harding.c1josh wrote:Neil,
You sailed to Scituate Saturday? We must have passed each other. My wife, son and I, on our CD25 'Sunset' were returning to Boston from Scituate on Saturday and YES, that was a great day to sail.
Josh
Fair winds, Neil
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167
Boston, MA
CDSOA member #698
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167
Boston, MA
CDSOA member #698
Re: Best Sail Of The Season
Rick,
Great photo - nice looking boat. I notice that you choose to sail from the leeward side and am curious as to your reason. I tend to only sit on the leeward side when the wind is light and I want gravity to help fill the sails.
Gary
Great photo - nice looking boat. I notice that you choose to sail from the leeward side and am curious as to your reason. I tend to only sit on the leeward side when the wind is light and I want gravity to help fill the sails.
Gary
Last edited by Gary H on Aug 25th, '14, 20:09, edited 1 time in total.
CDSOA Member 1389
Re: Best Sail Of The Season
Josh
Hope Sunset had a nice stay in Scituate
Next stay ask for a mooring in the outer harbor a lot more peaceful
Nice to see a transit 25 come to my 'backyard'
Pete
Hope Sunset had a nice stay in Scituate
Next stay ask for a mooring in the outer harbor a lot more peaceful
Nice to see a transit 25 come to my 'backyard'
Pete
-
- Posts: 4367
- Joined: Feb 5th, '05, 17:25
- Location: s/v LIQUIDITY, CD28. We sail from Marina Bay on Boston Harbor. Try us on channel 9.
- Contact:
Re: Best Sail Of The Season
As the boats get bigger and heavier, distribution of crew weight has less effect. I tend to sit on the side where I can best watch the traffic. I like the high side but also like being able to see what's otherwise blocked by the genoa.Gary H wrote: I notice that you choose to sail from the leeward side and am curious as to your reason. I tend to only sit on the leeward side when the wind is light and I want gravity to help fill the sails.
Fair winds, Neil
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167
Boston, MA
CDSOA member #698
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167
Boston, MA
CDSOA member #698
-
- Posts: 387
- Joined: Apr 9th, '14, 18:39
- Location: 1984 Cape Dory 22
Re: Best Sail Of The Season
Thanks Neil, yes I was lucky. If she had her "real camera" vs an iPhone it would have been even better!
Neil Gordon wrote:You're lucky! It's rare to get a great picture like that of your own boat! I got this one by email compliments of John Ring following a trip from Salem to Boston. http://bostonsailors.blogspot.com/s2sailorlis wrote:Sunday was very nice on Long Island Sound off Bridgeport with a fairly steady 10 knot breeze mid-day which is unusual for these parts this time of day/year....a friend sailed past and captured me working to windward...
______________
Rick
1984 CD22
Excuse auto-correct typos courtesy of iOS...or simply lazy typing
Rick
1984 CD22
Excuse auto-correct typos courtesy of iOS...or simply lazy typing
-
- Posts: 387
- Joined: Apr 9th, '14, 18:39
- Location: 1984 Cape Dory 22
Re: Best Sail Of The Season
Gary
Somehow I missed you post.. Sorry.. Thx the boat passes the 50 foot cosmetic test...the teak is structurally sound but a mess..but totally restorable so that is goodness.
Re leeward position...the conditions that day were about 8-12 knots true. Mostly around 10. When it did get to 12 I moved to windward to lessen the weather helm..my last boat was incredibly balanced in 12-15 knots...finger-tip tiller balanced...this boat isn't quite like that...reason for leeward position was 1) a boat was approaching from port-side and heading close to me so wanted good view, 2) realized it was a friend chasing me down for a picture so I obliged and kept to leeward for that "classic" pose...
I estimate winds were prob 8-9 at time pix was taken and angle of heel maybe 20 degrees so no big deal.
Rick
Somehow I missed you post.. Sorry.. Thx the boat passes the 50 foot cosmetic test...the teak is structurally sound but a mess..but totally restorable so that is goodness.
Re leeward position...the conditions that day were about 8-12 knots true. Mostly around 10. When it did get to 12 I moved to windward to lessen the weather helm..my last boat was incredibly balanced in 12-15 knots...finger-tip tiller balanced...this boat isn't quite like that...reason for leeward position was 1) a boat was approaching from port-side and heading close to me so wanted good view, 2) realized it was a friend chasing me down for a picture so I obliged and kept to leeward for that "classic" pose...
I estimate winds were prob 8-9 at time pix was taken and angle of heel maybe 20 degrees so no big deal.
Rick
Gary H wrote:Rick,
Great photo - nice looking boat. I notice that you choose to sail from the leeward side and am curious as to your reason. I tend to only sit on the leeward side when the wind is light and I want gravity to help fill the sails.
Gary
______________
Rick
1984 CD22
Excuse auto-correct typos courtesy of iOS...or simply lazy typing
Rick
1984 CD22
Excuse auto-correct typos courtesy of iOS...or simply lazy typing