Went out at 1200 for a couple of hours today. I'd been playing in the dingy yesterday and thought it would be ok to tow it behind Janix.
The was just over 20kts of wind when we went out. We put 2 reefs in and went into the sound to play. The spring tide was ebbing as we tried to sail into the Hamoaze (in the shelter from the wind). Every time we tried to tack, the bow never came through the wind and we were blown back downwind. The rocks got really close at one point and I was seconds from starting the engine to get us out of trouble.
So we gave up and decided to have one blast around the sound before going home. I turned around a few minutes later and saw the dingy, outboard and oars about 100m away. I went into M.O.B. mode and for a couple of seconds started working out which way to turn for a close reach approach, but then remembered unlike the drills, we had an engine that worked. We dropped the sails and motored back, circling it until Mayuri had sorted out the lasso (as we had no boat hook) she drove while I lassood the outboard and retied it to Janix. The glue patches that stick the metal eyes onto the dingy had come off.
We put the sails back up and sailed back home.
The was just over 20kts of wind when we went out. We put 2 reefs in and went into the sound to play. The spring tide was ebbing as we tried to sail into the Hamoaze (in the shelter from the wind). Every time we tried to tack, the bow never came through the wind and we were blown back downwind. The rocks got really close at one point and I was seconds from starting the engine to get us out of trouble.
So we gave up and decided to have one blast around the sound before going home. I turned around a few minutes later and saw the dingy, outboard and oars about 100m away. I went into M.O.B. mode and for a couple of seconds started working out which way to turn for a close reach approach, but then remembered unlike the drills, we had an engine that worked. We dropped the sails and motored back, circling it until Mayuri had sorted out the lasso (as we had no boat hook) she drove while I lassood the outboard and retied it to Janix. The glue patches that stick the metal eyes onto the dingy had come off.
We put the sails back up and sailed back home.
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