Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Seal sail

I bumped into my neighbour Peter yesterday afternoon, while I was taking Oz for a walk, and on the spur of the moment, invited him for a sail today.  Which was probably a sound instinct, as if I had not done so, given the weather this morning and my general slowness in the morning, I doubt I would have gone out. 

Peter brought along Saika, his son's friend, who comes from Tokyo. She had never been sailing before, but she loved it.  It was great to see something which I do a lot through fresh eyes. She was very excited about the idea that there are wild animals living in the bay, and we decided to sail over to the large yellow buoy near the shipping channel, where I saw seals a few weeks ago. There were three, one large one sunning himself, and two in the water doing lazy turns and somersaults.  Saika was impressed. 



The day turned into a lovely sunny afternoon, wind around 10 knots so the boat was moving along nicely, and all in all I am extremely glad that we got out.



I attached my new mast float arrangement on the main.  It is probably too heavy, and probably contributes to the chance of a capsize, but if we did capsize it would stop the boat turning turtle.




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