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Evening sail
Posted by admin in Puget Sound, Shilshole, sailing on June 12th, 2008
Despite light winds I went out last night. It’s a good excuse to keep the boat ship-shape and, drifting around the sound is better then sitting at dock. I still suck at docking but it went pretty smoothly. I just tacked out to the green can off Discovery Park and came back down wind… out for around 4 hours with about an hour of that under motor (takes a while to get in/out of the marina).
I think this is a portable fish processing plant. They started to tow it up the sound later in the evening.
Tacking up wind in a very light 8-10. I’m still very impressed with how well the Westsail does in very light air. Yes – I’m really lazy and just leave the bumpers on deck when it’s light out.
When the autohelm can no longer maintain a course it’s usually a good sign that there isn’t enough wind. It was so light out that I took down the sails while on a broad-reach.