Jim and Chris who are doing the TN launched their Lugger at Altona with Penny this morning. I got down with the Skerry. A beautiful sailing day with a steady 10 knots Southerly. We sailed over to Point Cook. I was a head and headed for the beach there but the sea birds looked so peaceful and the water was shallow which I knew the Lugger wouldn't like, so I headed back out again almost running over a big banjo shark. We drifted and had lunch, then made an attempt to get round Dumb Joe cardinal mark.
It was directly up wind though, and we got discouraged and ran back for home. 13.4 NM for the day.
The good news is that the Skerry performed very creditably relative to the Lugger, faster on all points of sail and pointing about as well. So I might not be the TN lantern rouge.
A good day, my kind of sailing.
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