New Boat 4 Sled

[sleddog]

Super blue moon rise tonight from CBC. Next one in 2037.

[MillyB]

Very bright here last night in Inverness- Marine layer and higher cloud deck obscuring it tonight.

[sleddog]

[QUOTE=sleddog;33815]Randall Reeves and Harmon Shragge depart the Golden Gate tomorrow on the first leg of circling the Americas clockwise. The plan as reported in Lat-38 is "to leave, weather permitting, on Tuesday and take the Great Circle route north to Homer, Alaska, with the goal of arriving in early October."

Currently MOLI is headed at right angles to the GC course. Reminds me of the summer I left Santa Cruz to sail WILDFLOWER to Glacier Bay, AK. 3 days later I was further south than when I left, and decided to divert to nearby Channel Islands off S.Cal. "Man Proposes, God Disposes" I believe is the navigational term.

[MillyB]

Plan on Improvising

[sleddog]

Plan on Improvising

Upwind into Gale Alley is never a good look. Highest percentage of gales in the N.Pacific Ocean is off Oregon/N.Cal Coast late June to mid-September. Francis Drake discovered that in June of 1579 when leaky GOLDEN HINDE beat her way north looking for the NW Passage only to get blown back to discover and seek shelter in Drakes Bay.

For those who haven't yet visited Invernes Yacht Club to see the colorful 110's duke it out just offshore, "Plan on Improvising" is the Fleet 56 motto.

[sleddog]

Interesting MOLI is now essentially hove to 220 miles SW of San Franciso, making 1 knot west in 11 knots of wind on the beam. They've been headed for Hawaii since leaving for Homer, AK. Sometimes waiting for a windshift is the best way to go, You can follow Randall's Log here: http://figure8voyage.com/blog/

[MillyB]

I might be looking over my right shoulder at that and thinking " yikes !"

[BobJ]

You'd have to dig pretty far back in Sled's thread to find our last push-me-pull-you boat.

I saw this today and couldn't resist. Let's start with the basics - which way is it going?

[Dazzler]

[Howard Spruit]

Sept 12th 2023 At Capitola Boat club we attempted our annual general membership meeting, but failed to achieve a quorum so there is no minutes of the meeting, but the attendees did finish all the ice cream!