Great day for a sail with my wife and brother. Temps to 70, waves 2 – 4 with winds gusting to 22 knots.
Before we headed out, we stopped at the fuel dock to add a couple of gallons of diesel. A day earlier the engine died on us due to air in the fuel line. Adding the additional fuel was an effort to hopefully prevent that from happening again. It worked.
When we first hit the lake the wind was blowing pretty good and we started with a reef in the mainsail. Even then, we touched 7.1 knots pretty quickly.