Sail Training Notes 2019
Notes for Sail Training 2019
Hello Members – we are looking forward to another Sail Training week this year which is taking place from 4th-11th August.
The application process is about to open!
Notes for Sail Training 2019
Hello Members – we are looking forward to another Sail Training week this year which is taking place from 4th-11th August.
The application process is about to open!
Oh the irony. I titled my last blog ‘Turn the Wind On,’ and frankly should have known better. As I write on the morning of January 31 it’s blowing dogs off chains from the NNE and ISBJORN is careening off wave tops, surfing her way west at 11 knots in the big ones.
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When I was a young boy, my grandparents lived in Pines Lake, N.J., a few miles from our house. My grandfather loved being out on the water, and in the summer he would take me sailing on the lake.
February 25, 2019
Day 144
Noon Position: 46 36S 147 00W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): E 5
Wind(t/tws): WNW 18
Sea(t/ft): NW 12
Sky: Stratus, Rain
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FULL WONKA! Surprise surprise…that little extra Sailing SV Delos something we teased in the 80 NORTH coffee table book is revealed today! Since we can’t ship 250 books around the world to sign them all...
Note: The title – and gist – of this post will come back to haunt me in the next installment…
May 2, 7:30pm Along with building the @UK Sailmakers group, Butch is well known as a competitor on the race course and race organizer. His sailing career spans 60 years in which he has competed in everything from 12-foot dinghies… Continue Reading Racing Seminar...
February 24, 2019
Day 143
Noon Position: 46 05S 150 50W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): ExS 7
Wind(t/tws): NW 24 – 28 (steady 30 within two hours)
Sea(t/ft): NW 6
Sky: Alto and cirro cumulus.
#257. Alvah Simon is best known for his extraordinary voyage to the Arctic that he documented in ‘North to the Night,’ a highly philosophical, almost spiritual book about his over-wintering in the Canadian Arctic, alone, on his steel sloop, the ROGER HENRY, frozen in the ice.
February 23, 2019
Day 142
Noon Position: 46 11S 154 47W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): ExN 7
Wind(t/tws): NW 19 – 24
Sea(t/ft): NW 6
Sky: Overcast; altostratus
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Weego’s Crankenstein is the first lithium chemistry jumpstarter under $1,000 that can start large 24v diesel engines, and its intuitive display with multiple powering options are noteworthy features that will hopefully come to more modestly priced designs.
February 22, 2019
Day 141
Noon Position: 46 25S 158 30W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): NExE 5
Wind(t/tws): NW 14
Sea(t/ft): NW 2
Sky: Clear
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February 21, 2019
Day 140
Noon Position: 47 13S 161 15W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): E 3
Wind(t/tws): NWxN 6 – 7
Sea(t/ft): W 2
Sky: Clear
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