Of course I liked it.....alllllllll of it. And I did read all your crabbing tips too
You seem like you can take a little ribbing(BBQ reference intended)
We'll probably have to head to Sucia with the ballast out at WOT to keep up with your Gennaker though. I did finally install my wind indicator but pulled some bad moves last weekend. As far as light airs go, we left Long Harbor around 14:00 on Sunday and as soon as we cleared Nose Point leaving Captain's Passage and entering Trincomali we raised sail on a port tack and were instantly rewarded with 3.4kts boat speed. However I wasn't really watching the other boats or the surface of the water and as we neared the entrance to Montague we sailed into the wind shadow of Parker Island. We manage to tack on our momentum but couldn't make headway, the speed indicator on the depth sounder didn't read any movement at all. So we furled the genny and fired up the outboard for some motor sailing to Retreat Cove.
Also made a heavy air mistake(or 5) early that morning in the strait of Georgia. I had tucked into Campbell Bay Saturday night for protection from the forecast NW winds. I slipped anchor early with the teens all sleeping in the Vberth. I figured we'd head to Prevost for breakfast....well that wasn't the kindest morning for gentle sailing. I rounded Edith point into 5-6ft waves and roughly 20kts of wind in my face. As we bashed away everyone was woken harshly with the feet above their heads and loose dishes etc crashing around the cabin(broke a 10liter plastic jug of drinking water and soaked the carpets on the sole). Brilliant me I figured lets raise the sails and everything will settle down as we briskly beat toward Active Pass. Another mistake...I let the furler line off the cleat when I went forward to raise the main, the wind pulled the Genoa half out and I had it flogging while trying to raise the main(I stayed on the opposite side of the mast and boom). Another other mistake....I raised the full main and didn't start with a reef. These mistakes were then followed by other smaller frustrating mistakes as we were overpowered, heeling to 30+degrees rounding up the backwinded Genny tacking herself the main being over powered, heeling to 30+deg rounding up, the now tacked Genny backwinding and tacking us for another nasty roll. So we started the engine, timed the swells as the admiral made sure I knew that me falling overboard was not acceptable...I got the main down(using the reef points to keep the loose sail under control as I brought it down in stages) got the Genoa furled with great difficulty(foredeck was not the best place to be). With everything tied down and everyone awake and grumpy we motored in to Miner's Bay.
After a brief respite we went to the family strata on Salt Spring for showers and then on to the aforementioned botching of sailing in light airs.
We did a few speed runs(especially the 42M home) and we travelled 101M in 48hrs including our brief appearance at the MYCBC rear commodore cruise on Thetis Island.
So this post is mostly off topic, but we did do some light air sailing(poorly) and now you know how much fun it is to be on the West Coast.
The outboard skeg is the part of the leg with the prop(its actually the little fin that sticks down in front of the lower prop blade)...just getting the prop and lower leg out of the water will reduce drag helping you make the most out of the least amount of wind(of course I just admitted to some lousy sailing skills and gave sailing advice in the same post...isn't the internet wonderful
)Willy
