A lovely morning sail - but no seals!

Rick and set off in the Jav and had a pretty good sail - windy enough for some trapezing but not too hectic. We got to far point but there were no seals there!
There was some hard tacking to get up the cut.
Not sure yet what other sailing went on: Ethelred? Laser?

All out for an evening sail

Richard and Chris went out in Ethelred, Jen and I in the Carrot and Rick in his minisail. It was quite windy and unfortunately Rick suffered an epuipment failure: The tiller extension broke and it was almost impossible to sail after that. Jen and I brought a spare but we had all pretty much had enough by then. That could well be Rick's last sail in the minisail. (:
This was Ethelred's first sail for severa years and the first one with the new mast. All went very well.

Fun Week Day One: Agar Creek Crawl

The Commodore (aka Minister of Fun) made a stirring speech before we set off - basically warning us to keep out of the way of the Seal Boats!





It was a dead run out of the cut then a brisk reach to the mouth of the Morston Creek. We had a fairly exciting tack up the creek and stopped for a while on the hard there. M walked to Morston and took some pics of the fleet on the actual creek crawl part:

Through one gap but not another

Another very high tide (astronomically speaking) but not as high as it could have been. It was
quite windy so Rick and I set off in the carrot. We went all the way to the seals and sailed
through the gap between far point and the new island. On the return journey we attempted to
circumnavigate the sand dune at the end of Pincher's Creek but the tide was just not high
enough.

To the point and seals in Zephyr

We had a terrific motor/sail in Zephyr today. It was a really high tide (9.3) with a westerley wind. We motored out to the point and spent a good time on the (recently renovated) boardwalk and looking around the lifeboat house. We then had bacon rolls and orange juice on the the shingle back where we had anchored. Later we motored off to see the seals. They were a bit short in number as the new island was totally submerged. We then hoisted sail and had a good run/reach all the way back to the mooring.

Another quick thrash in the Carrot

We set off again and whizzed across to Watch-house bay where Rick took the helm.


There were loads of (mostly dead) ladybirds on the strandline.



Indulgent slowmo:

Quick thrash in the Jav

Rick and I had two sails today. The first one was in the Jav and was an exciting thrash to watch-house bay a few times. Rick did a good job on the trapeze (see vid). It was a bit like hard work so we didn't stay out for long. (note the classy landing!)