Messing About In Sailboats

London 2012 Day 3 - The Puffin Will Love These

London 2012 Day 2 - 49ers, Lasers, Elliott, Finns, Stars

Photo: FIV/Carlo Borlenghi

What a busy day on the water

London 2012 Day 1 - Finns, Stars and Match Racing

C/o Carlo Borlenghi

Let The Games Begin - Training Day

c/o Carlo Borlenghi

Sailing Photo Of The Day - Some Color For You

Racing Cadence in The Red Grant Regatta

This was us two Saturdays ago, racing Cadence in RYC's Red Grant Regatta. We entered her in the Cruiser's race, an 8.5 mile jaunt down-wind and back. We won line honors but placed 6th overall on corrected time out of 14 boats. Given that our PHRF is  twice that of the winning boat we we thought that was respectable outcome.

Alice helmed, I did tactics, friends Richard on main, his son Sean and Teri (Mrs Belle Faster) trimmed and her dauighter Sophie was on traveler. 

Photos c/o of Pim Van Hemmen

377 nm Later, Home Sweet Home

Alice and I just got home after a two-part 377NM cruise.

Two weekends ago, we sailed 30 hours straight, double-handed from Perth Amboy, NJ to Greenport, NY where we left Cadence at Brewer Sterling Marina.

Last weekend we sailed to Newport, where we stayed on a mooring for 4 days. We saw the ACWS, worked from the boat, did the 4th of July thing at NYYC and sailed round Connicut (sp?) Island.

On Thursday, we passaged back West, picked up a mooring in Niantic and then onto Port Jefferson, a noisy, busy but friendly harbor.

Last night we rendezvoued with our friends Stuart and Shanna in beautiful Oyster Bay.

Home today down the East River, across NY Harbor finishing our cruise with a superb close reach home.

Amazingly Alice and I are still talking to each other.

Apologies for a dull but factual post. More interesting one to come.

Boat Puzzler- Messing About T-Shirt Prize At Stake

These two rather crappy photos taken with my iPhone were of our neighbour in Newport.

My challenge to you all is to guess the story behind this boat. I will give you a couple of clues:

1. She has portholes on one side only

2. She is named after a US West Coast island

No morre clues till I have at least 3 guesses.

Messing About T-shirt prize for the first one to guess correctly.

Happy Independence Day

Sailing Photo Of The Day - Le Bucket