busy start
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Corinthian Midwinters on Red Sky
Some sailing pics from this weekend
Elise had a very busy weekend -
- Saturday: Scott, Nathan, Mark, Suzanne and Nat went out for a practice
Mainly tacks, gybes, and mark roundings (with both sets and douses). Varied condition, light air in the morning, medium air in the afternoon (15 to 18 knots)
- Sunday: Nathan and Serge did a bit of boat maintenance (see other post) and went out for food at Sam's
Photos courtesy of Serge
Boat Work Day results
Summary from Nathan
Electrical summary:
Nav Lights deck level - Ok.
Cabin lights - loose connection stbd, fixed. Ok.
Compass - need to check at night (day too bright)
GPS - ok
VHF - ok, and receives GPS data for AIS
Instruments - ok
Raymarine Autotiller - no sign of life. Either socket isn't getting power or autotiller is dead. Diagnose.
"cigarette lighter" (charger)- gets power, used for various 12V
personal electronics
SSB plug - has power. SSB plug end a little corroded.
Autpilot sound in rudder, compass angle, apparent wind angle modes even though it was giving weird 'low power' warnings. So need to check connections for NKE autopilot, including whether it just needs bigger wires
Monday, February 13, 2012
Golden Gate Midwinters
Photos courtesy of Nathan
His caption 'These brutal Northern California winters are getting to me.'
Boat is Breakout.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Boat Work Days results for this past week
- New Bay lifelines purchased and installed
- Bow cleared of unused lines
- Lines added to boat cover where they were missing
- AIS GPS connection fixed
- Winches serviced
- Vang 'de-twisted'
- Epoxy fixes on the keel sanded off
- Racing genoa bottom fixed up
And onto the next big thing...
Heidy's Impressions of the Wine and Sail day
Posted with permission
'Growing up in Mexico, “doing” sports as a little girl meant watching and cheering the boys play fútbol (soccer), but when I met Nathalie in 2009, I began to consider sailing as a sport. Having been into yoga at the time, the only transferrable skill I had was the ability to use my core and keep my weight low on a moving vessel. Though, I’ve gone sailing over half a dozen times now, I still consider myself a newbie happy to be rail-meat on board. Joking aside, I’m quite lucky so far to have experienced the wonders of cruising through the San Francisco Bay – going around Alcatraz in the daytime, docking at Tiburon during a night sail, crossing the Golden Gate bridge with strong winds into the ocean, and being towed by a motor boat just a few feet off the Presidio YC shore. Lovely times, to say the least… what I get most out of sailing is the intense mental focus and crew comraderie. Happy sails!'
Yes, sailing is a sport (and there are Olympics categories to prove it ;-)) - and a fabulous one!
Feeding the birds
Some left over chips from the Berkeley Midwinters
Footage courtesy of Serge
Chips courtesy of Nathan
Sea Birds courtesy of Neptune
Nathan's Jobs
Nathan checked all the electrical connections and either fixed things up (such as the AIS GPS input)or wrote down a shopping list (such as a circuit breakerfor the nav or interior lights)
Quoting Nathan 'it is the first time that I check the bow deck light after 6 months of doing nothing and they WORK!!!'
Photos courtesy of Serge
Changing lifelines
Photos courtesy of Serge
Doing the same for the startboard lifeline
Now, installing the new ones
The shackle has 'France' written in big letters all over it
Hooking up the aft part
Sanding off keel epoxy job
This was one of the last day of the year's projects - Serge sanded it flush with the rest of the hull/keel
Photo courtesy of Serge
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