The Sailing Thread

**singlecross** · 09-03-2022, 06:35 PM

Nice afternoon in the PeaPod with my wife. We sailed down to the trailhead for a hike. Surf and Turf

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Doubled the speed on the return with some rowing added in as the sun went down.

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**Peruvian** · 09-03-2022, 06:55 PM

^^^Awesome. We got out for a sunset sail tonight as well.

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**Jong Lafitte** · 09-03-2022, 07:23 PM

Loving the stoke in here! Awesome!!

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**skinipenem** · 09-04-2022, 04:05 AM

Out for a very light wind cruise with our youngest. She didn't seem to mind the doldrums. She loved holding the mainsheet and did some driving too.

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**BCR** · 09-05-2022, 08:13 AM

"Free boat", which usually means expensive disaster, turned out to be a great little Lazer that one of my wife's patients gave to us for the kids. 3 hours of elbow grease by the kiddos and they were ripping around the harbor with smiles on their faces. Made me even happier to see (with the sweat equity they put into it) that they were ticked off when some other kids were jumping around on it on shore. They earned the right to that dismay...

**singlecross** · 09-05-2022, 08:17 AM

^^^ Well Done! Glad your kids are into it.

**heckacali** · 09-05-2022, 11:34 AM

Free boats can often be the most expensive ones.
Nice work.

**skinipenem** · 09-05-2022, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by BCR

"Free boat", which usually means expensive disaster, turned out to be a great little Lazer that one of my wife's patients gave to us for the kids. 3 hours of elbow grease by the kiddos and they were ripping around the harbor with smiles on their faces. Made me even happier to see (with the sweat equity they put into it) that they were ticked off when some other kids were jumping around on it on shore. They earned the right to that dismay...

That's awesome!

Unsolicited advice: the Cunningham should go straight down to the cleat not around the mast. Some vang tension will keep your kids from getting thwacked. More advanced rigging is available on the interwebs.

Lasers are great boats. They will learn a lot and have a blast doing it!! Stoked!

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**BCR** · 09-06-2022, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by skinipenem

That's awesome!

Unsolicited advice: the Cunningham should go straight down to the cleat not around the mast. Some vang tension will keep your kids from getting thwacked. More advanced rigging is available on the interwebs.

Lasers are great boats. They will learn a lot and have a blast doing it!! Stoked!

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Good eye - there is a burr I have to file down on the aft of the mast that I was worried about chaffing the Cunningham. Vang won't hold fast, have to play with it next weekend. Needs a clew tie or strap too. Wanted to get them out on it immediately though as they put in the work without complaint. All in all, not bad for what I thought was going to be a big project.

**skinipenem** · 09-06-2022, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by BCR

Good eye - there is a burr I have to file down on the aft of the mast that I was worried about chaffing the Cunningham. Vang won't hold fast, have to play with it next weekend. Needs a clew tie or strap too. Wanted to get them out on it immediately though as they put in the work without complaint. All in all, not bad for what I thought was going to be a big project.

Look at them go! Making lifetime memories right there. Sweet!

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**BmillsSkier** · 09-07-2022, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by BCR

"Free boat", which usually means expensive disaster, turned out to be a great little Lazer that one of my wife's patients gave to us for the kids. 3 hours of elbow grease by the kiddos and they were ripping around the harbor with smiles on their faces. Made me even happier to see (with the sweat equity they put into it) that they were ticked off when some other kids were jumping around on it on shore. They earned the right to that dismay...

Great stuff!

Free Laser is a great Laser!

**MyNameIsAugustWest** · 09-11-2022, 02:35 PM

Normally a 12+ hour race...the poor wind forecast caused the race committee to shorten the course. Winds were better than forecast but if we had done the full course, we would have finished well after midnight. The sunset was amazing...

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We were first across the line in our class (jib and main, no spinnaker). Haven't seen the results with handicaps applied.

Skipper/owner in the pic. He's my neighbor and more than occasional ski buddy.

**Peruvian** · 09-11-2022, 03:55 PM

^^^who left the handle in the jib winch???

Great sunset last night!

It was a beauty morning on the lake today with a newb sailor friend. He loved it and will be back. That’s good because more crew is better., even if he doesn't know how to run a sheet around a winch.

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**MyNameIsAugustWest** · 09-11-2022, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by Peruvian

^^^who left the handle in the jib winch???

We were on an 8-mile reach. Leaving the handle in there makes it easy to fine tune trim. It was a 155 genoa so you can't trim by hand in anything bigger than 5 knots.

**singlecross** · 09-30-2022, 12:26 PM

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Back to work hauling boats for the season. Not the most efficient using cradles, tide, and dragging them up the beach with my truck but I charge a healthy rate. Gotta fill up the ski account this time of year!

**BCR** · 10-05-2022, 09:39 AM

Got to end the season (unless we get some nice days this Winter for frostbiting) with a hairy 19 mile race in the remnants of Ian this weekend in the Vanderbilt Cup. 4-5 foot seas around the first mark and a steady 20kt wind made for some sporty conditions. An unfavorable rating and the fact that we didn't think the race would go off so we didn't have the bottom cleaned or change out the cruising head sail, led to not making the podium, but we beat the 2/3s of the boats that scratched due to the weather, so there's definitely that.

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**MyNameIsAugustWest** · 10-05-2022, 03:48 PM

^ Looks sporty.

**singlecross** · 12-25-2022, 10:59 AM

Sometimes your Kids just get you and nail the Christmas present! Can’t wait to stroll the dock this Summer when the brick red pant crew comes to rusticate…

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**singlecross** · 12-25-2022, 11:05 AM

The trailer for the Netflix Untold documentary that we watched as a family at Thanksgiving for reference:

And another from Aussie TV:

**I Skied Bandini Mountain** · 12-25-2022, 12:17 PM

Untold is great!

**singlecross** · 02-12-2023, 07:21 PM

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**BmillsSkier** · 02-12-2023, 10:22 PM

Lol.

**BCR** · 03-02-2023, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Free Laser is a great Laser!

I'm not saying that this will end as one of those stories of a guy turning a paperclip into a car by trading up, but made a nice even off-season swap (sale and purchase) of the free Lazer into a 420. Needs a little work, but overall in better condition than the Lazer, bigger to hold more of our kiddos, and our oldest can race it this year, forgoing the need to rent a boat. Plus (as with any warm weather or rear wheel drive purchase it seems) it brought about a thoroughly snowy March, so we get to extend the ski season nicely.