Mid Winter - Show your Sailing Summer

[Paul D.]

So we up in the North Country are about to get some of our first serious snow and proper way-below-zero cold. I know there is an eye candy specific CD photo discussion page, but It's time to post some of your favorite shots from your summer sailing season here. Maybe with a lesson learned, brief story or quick anecdote. Consider it charity for your northern brethren.

[Jim Walsh]

6/30/18, wind 18K, speed 5.5K, Bermuda 400NM astern. It doesn’t get better than this....

[Steve Laume]

That picture shows why they call it blue water sailing. The waters of the Gulf Stream are the most beautiful color I have ever seen. When the waves stand up so you can see through the crests it can only be described as topaz.

Toss in a few flying fish, maybe a couple of Tropic Birds and you are in heaven, Steve.

[Cathy Monaghan]

3 July 2018 — A misty, foggy morning at City Island, NY during Realization’s summer cruise.

[casampson]

Well, I'm not exactly sailing, but there's salt water involved. This shot was taken on a memorable morning of striper fishing on the flats in Barnstable, MA. When I'm not sailing my Cape Dory, there's nothing I'd rather be doing than fly fishing for striped bass on the Cape.

[Cathy Monaghan]

3 Jul 2018. During Realization’s summer Cruise.

[Tom Keevil]

Here we are at anchor in Chief Matthews Bay in Gardner Canal, British Columbia. This is very far off the beaten track, as it is many miles up a dead end fjord, with very few places shallow enough to anchor. Here we are perched on the edge of a narrow shelf at the mouth of a creek, just between way too deep and aground. Most boats that come this far north are headed to Alaska, and don't have time to detour back in here, so there are very few other boats, but it is a spectacular place. There are also a number of very nice hot springs for soaking.

[Tom Keevil]

Here's a view of our other boat, taken in the same place.

[Cathy Monaghan]

5 Jul 2018. Port Jefferson, NY during Realization’s summer cruise.

[psjanker]

Planting seeds in my granddaughter Alexandria Dakota on my CD 28 CHASSEUR and CD 30 DAKOTA LEE.

V/r

Pete

[bottomscraper]

Schooner Mercantile Penobscot Bay Maine August 2018

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[Gary H]

Taking a little guy for his first sail!

[jbenagh]

Red Brook Harbor, early August. A Rozinante ketch in the middle.

[Frenchy]

Friends aboard for a day trip to Cuttyhunk Is.

[John Stone]

South East of disorder....