Sometimes you just never know what a day on the water holds in store. Yesterday I arranged to meet Chuck down at AYC to collect a rivet gun to repair the Sabre's mast. There was a council function on, and the plan was for the mayor and media chap to live stream their part of an online function while sailing. But the barbecue and various boats had blocked in access to the club dinghies, and as I sailed up in the Core Sound at the moment, Oz and I had some unexpected guests. Chuck came to make sure I did not hijack them. It was quite surreal, but our new mayor seems like a genuinely nice person, and Ozzie liked him.
After we dropped off the official party Oz and I helped Sandra and Federico rig up, Oz tried his luck getting some bacon from the function, and had some success I heard later, and we headed out again for the pier reef mark loop. Light airs, we got left behind quickly by the fast boats.
After lunch the wind was kicking up, and I put the first reef in main and mizzen. Wind around 20 knots, the core sound was handling the increasingly boisterous conditions fine, but I got soaked pretty quickly by the spray, and as I was just in shorts and shirt, I started to get cold, so I dropped main and we broad reached home under reefed mizzen at 4 to 5 knots.
It was blowing hard and holding the boat to walk it along the jetty, and then taking the masts down, were both a bit challenging. But we didn't break anything and home tired but happy after an interesting day.
I am going to have a push on decluttering the boat, there is too much stuff collected on there and it is less shipshape than it might be. Lovely boat though ...
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