{"id":251,"date":"2013-10-06T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/06\/finished-strong\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T18:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:56:04","slug":"finished-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailingthanksdad.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/06\/finished-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished strong"},"content":{"rendered":"

6-October-2013
\nSaturday was rained out, but Sunday was a good day for sailing.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Sunday I went sailing with my wife, my brother and a couple friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Some enjoyed a “Bloody Mary”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Winds started in the 8 knot range and finished strong during the last hour of the sail with gusts to 18 knots. We were sailing right at 6.0 knots for a while towards the end of the\u00a0day. Our max speed was 6.1 knots according to the iPad sailing GPS app I have been using for the past two seasons. The Garmin GPS 72, which I brought out for the first time, indicated the max speed was 6.3 knots.<\/p>\n

We got the rail in the water for a short while, but a couple members of the crew didn\u2019t appreciate that too much, so we eased out the main sheet to spill some wind and kept the rail out of the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Rail in the water<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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A couple of the crew members that didn’t like the “rail-in-the-water”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The temp was 56 degrees when we left the dock at 11:45 and felt good for most of the day. Clouds came in and the winds picked up towards the end of the sail and everyone put their jackets on.<\/p>\n

All in all a very good sail.<\/p>\n

Click here for- ><\/span>Google Earth GPS Track 2013-10-06<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n