The Log of Typhoon "Dory"
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The Log of Typhoon "Dory"
As there isn't much going on in the forums these days, I thought I'd share my latest daysail aboard Dory, my 1980 Cape Dory Typhoon with all of you on the forum. There is absolutely nothing remarkable about the day's sail, but I thought those living in the higher latitudes who are stuck under a blanket of snow might appreciate a bit of sailing, even it is vicarious.
This log is posted as a single large image in order to avoid me having to attach only 3 images per post and break it up into little pieces. Unfortunately that means there is no text for it it be searchable, but at least it all appears in one post.
If people are interested, I can post more of my daysailing trips here. If not, I won't. So let's see how this goes...
Sunday, February 6, 2022
This log is posted as a single large image in order to avoid me having to attach only 3 images per post and break it up into little pieces. Unfortunately that means there is no text for it it be searchable, but at least it all appears in one post.
If people are interested, I can post more of my daysailing trips here. If not, I won't. So let's see how this goes...
Sunday, February 6, 2022
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Re: The Log of Typhoon "Dory"
Thanks Jim
but you should have stopped at the Oar House for brunch whilst waiting for the afternoon "heat"
Fair Winds
but you should have stopped at the Oar House for brunch whilst waiting for the afternoon "heat"
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Fair Winds
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I've noticed the past few times I passed the Oar House that their dock was buckled. I don't know if it was just unusually low winter tides, or if the dock has been damaged. Unfortunately, I don't think you can see enough of the bay from the Oar House to know if the wind has filled in. I think I'll just sit out on my boat on the bay bobbing around until the wind fills in. Can't beat the view, although the menu isn't nearly as good as the Oar House.barfwinkle wrote:Thanks Jim
but you should have stopped at the Oar House for brunch whilst waiting for the afternoon "heat"![]()
Fair Winds
Smooth sailing,
Jim
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Instead of posting the full log, I think I'm just going to try posting a highlight or two from the day...
Wednesday, February 9 A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter practices water rescues off Santa Rosa Island, Florida while several Coast Guard small boats stand by just outside the rotor wash.
--Jim
Wednesday, February 9 A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter practices water rescues off Santa Rosa Island, Florida while several Coast Guard small boats stand by just outside the rotor wash.
--Jim
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Thursday, February 10
Near perfect sailing conditions today--sunny, wind S at 5-10 knots--though a bit on the cool side at 61 degrees.
--Jim
--Jim
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Saturday, February 12
5 hours 20 minutes, 13.5 nautical miles
Smooth sailing,
Jim
Smooth sailing,
Jim
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Monday, February 14
The Admiral and I went out for a Valentine's Day sail. Wind was SSW around 12 knots, right at the upper limit for reasonably dry upwind sailing on a Typhoon; air temperature was 55F, which encourages romantically-inclined crew to sit close together to stay warm. Perfect for Valentine's Day! Smooth sailing,
Jim
The Admiral and I went out for a Valentine's Day sail. Wind was SSW around 12 knots, right at the upper limit for reasonably dry upwind sailing on a Typhoon; air temperature was 55F, which encourages romantically-inclined crew to sit close together to stay warm. Perfect for Valentine's Day! Smooth sailing,
Jim
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Sunday, February 20
After 6 days of small craft advisories and cautions, the last of which expired "late morning" today, I finally got to go sailing. It was a beautiful day on the water--sunny, 61F, with a southeasterly breeze of 10-12 knots that gradually dropped to 5-7 knots.
I headed out onto the bay just as the fleet of VX One sport boats was sailing the last race of the last regatta of their 2021-2022 Winter Series. Here are a few of the boats on the last leg of that race: I sailed south across the bay, all the way out to Santa Rosa Island, tacked once, and sailed about a half-mile along the island before it was time to head back.
It was a nice broad reach back to the bayou. I was interrupted along the way by a pod of dolphins that swam close to Dory. I hove-to for a few minutes to take some photos of the pod, then continued along my way. Cormorants stand at attention on a buoy on Bay Channel Reach
2 hours 57 minutes, 11.3 nautical miles logged.
Smooth sailing,
Jim
After 6 days of small craft advisories and cautions, the last of which expired "late morning" today, I finally got to go sailing. It was a beautiful day on the water--sunny, 61F, with a southeasterly breeze of 10-12 knots that gradually dropped to 5-7 knots.
I headed out onto the bay just as the fleet of VX One sport boats was sailing the last race of the last regatta of their 2021-2022 Winter Series. Here are a few of the boats on the last leg of that race: I sailed south across the bay, all the way out to Santa Rosa Island, tacked once, and sailed about a half-mile along the island before it was time to head back.
It was a nice broad reach back to the bayou. I was interrupted along the way by a pod of dolphins that swam close to Dory. I hove-to for a few minutes to take some photos of the pod, then continued along my way. Cormorants stand at attention on a buoy on Bay Channel Reach
2 hours 57 minutes, 11.3 nautical miles logged.
Smooth sailing,
Jim
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I just thought I'd pass along that this morning I read that the last VX One “race” I photographed on Sunday was actually abandoned because the robotic marker buoy boats malfunctioned and kept moving the turning marks during the race without being told to do so. (See https://www.sail-world.com/news/246475/ ... es-overall.) Technology is great—until it isn’t. I wondered why I never heard a finish gun and why the courses of some of the boats seemed odd. Here’s a photo of one of the Mark Set Bots that I took during the first VX One regatta of the Winter Series back in December:
Smooth sailing,
Jim
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Monday, February 21
We got to go sailing again today. It was cloudy, gray, cool, and a bit choppy, but I can’t complain too much for February. The wind was SSE at around 12 knots—just about the threshold for spray reaching the cockpit when sailing close-hauled. It was a wet sail across the bay until we got close alongside Gulf Breeze, then the seas flattened out in the lee of the peninsula. We beat along the western shore of Gulf Breeze, tacking offshore when we reached the 1-fathom curve, and tacking back inshore at the 2-fathom curve. When we reached Deer Point we cut across Santa Rosa Sound and sailed along the beach for a while following the 1-fathom curve, though the water was too stirred up to see the bottom. When it was time to head back, we gybed around onto starboard tack and reached back to the bayou. We saw 5.6 knots at one point sailing down the face of a wave during a gust, but mostly we were sailing at 4.8-5.1 knots—right around Dory’s hull speed. 2 hours 47 minutes, 12.4 nautical miles logged.
Smooth sailing,
Jim
We got to go sailing again today. It was cloudy, gray, cool, and a bit choppy, but I can’t complain too much for February. The wind was SSE at around 12 knots—just about the threshold for spray reaching the cockpit when sailing close-hauled. It was a wet sail across the bay until we got close alongside Gulf Breeze, then the seas flattened out in the lee of the peninsula. We beat along the western shore of Gulf Breeze, tacking offshore when we reached the 1-fathom curve, and tacking back inshore at the 2-fathom curve. When we reached Deer Point we cut across Santa Rosa Sound and sailed along the beach for a while following the 1-fathom curve, though the water was too stirred up to see the bottom. When it was time to head back, we gybed around onto starboard tack and reached back to the bayou. We saw 5.6 knots at one point sailing down the face of a wave during a gust, but mostly we were sailing at 4.8-5.1 knots—right around Dory’s hull speed. 2 hours 47 minutes, 12.4 nautical miles logged.
Smooth sailing,
Jim
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Wednesday, February 23
Four days of sailing in a row! Woohoo!
Today's forecast was for dense morning fog to burn off by 10 AM, followed by partly sunny skies with southerly winds increasing from 3-8 to 8-13 knots. When we drove over the 65-foot bridge on our way to the boat we could see that it was hazy out on the bay, but visibility was good enough to see Gulf Breeze some four miles away. If the forecast was right, we might be in for some good sailing!
By the time we drove along the waterfront for our pre-sail reconnoiter, the visibility had dropped so that we couldn't see Gulf Breeze any more, and the wind was light—around 5 knots. Wind-wise it looked more like genoa than jib weather, but with the prospect of decreasing visibility, I decided to hank on the jib. Our genoa blocks the view to leeward, and if there was a possibility of sailing in reduced visibility, I didn't want the additional handicap of not being able to see around the genoa. So jib it was.
As we motored out the channel it was apparent that visibility had dropped even more. When Dory's bow cleared the bayou entrance the visibility was down below 100 yards. One sailboat that had passed us motoring out the channel turned around and headed back to port, while another that we had seen leaving the bayou during our reconnoiter was now coming back in. As an old hand at sailing in Maine's pea-soup fog that is sometimes so thick you can't see the bow from the cockpit, this wimpy 100-yard visibility Florida fog didn't deter me, and we continued out the channel. I rather like sailing in fog. There is something about the way your universe closes in to such a small area that I find comforting. Plus the routine of manually sounding the fog horn every two minutes, listening for other marine traffic, and having to concentrate more on the telltales and the little patch of water right around the boat for sailing and steering cues (instead of simply being able to set a course for a landmark on a distant shore) really focuses the mind.
We sailed on into the fog for half an hour, then the fog gradually lifted. Our universe expanded from a small sphere a hundred yards in diameter to several hundred, then a half-mile, then a mile. Soon we could see the shore of Gulf Breeze, low and gray in the haze across the water. And then suddenly it was sunny and clear with blue skies and fluffy white clouds. When the sun burned the fog away it also seemed to burn most of the breeze away with it, and we lolled along at two knots, under-powered with the small jib. But it was sunny, we were making way, and the water was smooth. The fog had chased away all the zippy power boats that normally litter the water's surface with their wakes, and we were content to leave the sails as they were.
After a couple of hours of lazily beating our way to windward it was time to turn back. We pointed Dory's bow for the bayou, set the whisker pole, and ran wing-and-wing back home.
By the time we reached the channel to the bayou the wind had gone quite light, and although Dory maintained steerage way, we weren't moving very fast. Just as we approached the narrow entrance to the bayou the tug Miss Elizabeth, pushing two big deck barges on her nose, popped out from around the corner. Usually tugs entering and exiting the bayou issue a securite call so that other boats know they are coming, but Miss Elizabeth apparently didn't this time, and we had a bit of excitement as I had to quickly tilt the outboard down into the water, start it up, and motor Dory over to the very edge of the channel. Now I was glad that the fog had lifted, as that scenario would have been an entirely different matter in a thick fog. With the bubble of our peaceful little daysail thus popped, we dropped the sails and motored the last third of a mile back to the marina.
3 hours 16 minutes, 8.8 nautical miles under way.
Smooth sailing,
Jim
Four days of sailing in a row! Woohoo!
Today's forecast was for dense morning fog to burn off by 10 AM, followed by partly sunny skies with southerly winds increasing from 3-8 to 8-13 knots. When we drove over the 65-foot bridge on our way to the boat we could see that it was hazy out on the bay, but visibility was good enough to see Gulf Breeze some four miles away. If the forecast was right, we might be in for some good sailing!
By the time we drove along the waterfront for our pre-sail reconnoiter, the visibility had dropped so that we couldn't see Gulf Breeze any more, and the wind was light—around 5 knots. Wind-wise it looked more like genoa than jib weather, but with the prospect of decreasing visibility, I decided to hank on the jib. Our genoa blocks the view to leeward, and if there was a possibility of sailing in reduced visibility, I didn't want the additional handicap of not being able to see around the genoa. So jib it was.
As we motored out the channel it was apparent that visibility had dropped even more. When Dory's bow cleared the bayou entrance the visibility was down below 100 yards. One sailboat that had passed us motoring out the channel turned around and headed back to port, while another that we had seen leaving the bayou during our reconnoiter was now coming back in. As an old hand at sailing in Maine's pea-soup fog that is sometimes so thick you can't see the bow from the cockpit, this wimpy 100-yard visibility Florida fog didn't deter me, and we continued out the channel. I rather like sailing in fog. There is something about the way your universe closes in to such a small area that I find comforting. Plus the routine of manually sounding the fog horn every two minutes, listening for other marine traffic, and having to concentrate more on the telltales and the little patch of water right around the boat for sailing and steering cues (instead of simply being able to set a course for a landmark on a distant shore) really focuses the mind.
We sailed on into the fog for half an hour, then the fog gradually lifted. Our universe expanded from a small sphere a hundred yards in diameter to several hundred, then a half-mile, then a mile. Soon we could see the shore of Gulf Breeze, low and gray in the haze across the water. And then suddenly it was sunny and clear with blue skies and fluffy white clouds. When the sun burned the fog away it also seemed to burn most of the breeze away with it, and we lolled along at two knots, under-powered with the small jib. But it was sunny, we were making way, and the water was smooth. The fog had chased away all the zippy power boats that normally litter the water's surface with their wakes, and we were content to leave the sails as they were.
After a couple of hours of lazily beating our way to windward it was time to turn back. We pointed Dory's bow for the bayou, set the whisker pole, and ran wing-and-wing back home.
By the time we reached the channel to the bayou the wind had gone quite light, and although Dory maintained steerage way, we weren't moving very fast. Just as we approached the narrow entrance to the bayou the tug Miss Elizabeth, pushing two big deck barges on her nose, popped out from around the corner. Usually tugs entering and exiting the bayou issue a securite call so that other boats know they are coming, but Miss Elizabeth apparently didn't this time, and we had a bit of excitement as I had to quickly tilt the outboard down into the water, start it up, and motor Dory over to the very edge of the channel. Now I was glad that the fog had lifted, as that scenario would have been an entirely different matter in a thick fog. With the bubble of our peaceful little daysail thus popped, we dropped the sails and motored the last third of a mile back to the marina.
3 hours 16 minutes, 8.8 nautical miles under way.
Smooth sailing,
Jim
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I'm not sure if I will keep doing these—the forum seems to have awoken from its early-February slumber, and I'm not sure if anyone is interested in reading about me knocking around the same 25-square-mile stretch of water. With that in mind here is the log from yesterday's sail, perhaps the last in this series unless something really interesting happens on a sail...
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Re: The Log of Typhoon "Dory"
I've been appreciating your posts, Jim, although with a tinge of jealousy. I try to distract myself from that by paying attention to the details in your photos. I notice that you seem to have your leads tuned about where I do--right at the forward end of their travel. I notice also that your jib sheets are quite a bit thicker than mine are. That seems like it would be an advantage when running the genoa sheets around the winches and cleating them off.