Michel wrote:Sometimes, there is just enough wind to equalize the force of the current and I will stay in place for a period of time! That is good!... I am not sailing backward!
Ah Michel, you have taken my philosophy to its next logical step. If I ain't going backwards then I must be sailing!!
Michel wrote:Sometimes, there is just enough wind to equalize the force of the current and I will stay in place for a period of time! That is good!... I am not sailing backward!
THE ADMIRAL and I are primarily lake sailors. One year we trailered down to the Choptank River in MD for Easter Break.
Were having a lovely sail, fresh breeze, heeled slightly, sunny & just a gorgeous day. A very pleasant elderly couple were sitting out at their dock also enjoying the day, waving at us regularly . . . as we kept about even with them for about 20 minutes.
Michel wrote:Sometimes, there is just enough wind to equalize the force of the current and I will stay in place for a period of time! That is good!... I am not sailing backward!
THE ADMIRAL and I are primarily lake sailors. One year we trailered down to the Choptank River in MD for Easter Break.
Were having a lovely sail, fresh breeze, heeled slightly, sunny & just a gorgeous day. A very pleasant elderly couple were sitting out at their dock also enjoying the day, waving at us regularly . . . as we kept about even with them for about 20 minutes.
Ha Ha!... I know the feeling!
Michel Boulet
Ex: "Mari-Bell" Sandpiper 565 (18.5367454 ft)
Now: "Papou" Tanzer 16 dinghy
Montreal
"Let the world say what it will"
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Michel wrote:Sometimes, there is just enough wind to equalize the force of the current and I will stay in place for a period of time! That is good!... I am not sailing backward!
THE ADMIRAL and I are primarily lake sailors. One year we trailered down to the Choptank River in MD for Easter Break.
Were having a lovely sail, fresh breeze, heeled slightly, sunny & just a gorgeous day. A very pleasant elderly couple were sitting out at their dock also enjoying the day, waving at us regularly . . . as we kept about even with them for about 20 minutes.
Ha Ha!... I know the feeling!
What's bad is when the dock is sailing faster than you are!!!!
Nice report, and video from Michel. I look forward to posting some of the St. John River soon. The Yngling draws 3.5 feet and is not retractable, but it is a deep river and from my Kirby 25 days (4 feet) I know I can get into some interesting places. I also have a CL12 I might refit for beach to beach cruising the Bay of Fundy. Would like to spend a day on Isle Haut.
Here is an interesting story written over 100 years ago by a James De Mille. I read it last summer after a failed attempt at circumnavigating Isle Haute with a friend in a Mirage 24. We came close before the tide turned against us. Will try again this summer in the Yngling, or perhaps even the CL12.
