Show your boat sailing thread

[SloopJonB]

Need to ease the tension on that whisker pole.

 

[Bull City]

Hopefully I didn’t already post this one.

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What kind of boat? Square Meter?

 

[accnick]

Need to ease the tension on that whisker pole.

need to re-lead the sheet, I'd say.

 

[Kris Cringle]

Just a little motion outside the decks. With the fast 10mm lens (that in the end was cropped, anyway!), the slowest shutter speed I could get (according to metadata from 2016) was 1/50th.

The F22 aperture gives a crisp focus throughout the photo. This may have been a nice 10-second video.

Video gurus: Is there any motion in the water due to 24fps? What would you suggest for settings?

I suppose the motion is just there in the gentle wake through the water, with video.

 

[Bryanjb]

Off some island. Twing forward, then staysail sheet and runners behind them. Who said winch islands aren’t useful. : )

 

[Norm01]

Clipper - what is your boat looks great

 

[Zora]

Heading into the south side of Portsmouth Harbour, Dominica. The carribean has given us some lovely consistent sailing, unlike the Mediterranean!

 

[smj]

Florida east coast sunrise.

 

[Kris Cringle]

Typical Maine coastal cruising kit; well-worn Sabre 34, unfettered with support systems, towing a drag-less dinghy.

As it is under sail through a land locked area, it is likely a local boat.

Sailed by the owner and a buddy? Not inferring that the name LIBERTINE would have anything to do with that.

 

[Kris Cringle]

More typical local coastal Maine kit; A Hinckley Pilot 35.

One of the slowest and smallest 35's you can still buy, it's sailing off it's anchor in the rain.

 

[accnick]

More typical local coastal Maine kit; A Hinckley Pilot 35.

One of the slowest and smallest 35's you can still buy, it's sailing off it's anchor in the rain.

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And still a gorgeous boat to look at. Whenever I think of buying another sailboat for Maine, I look at those, and say "that's really pretty." Then you step aboard one and say "that's really small."

 

[Kris Cringle]

And still a gorgeous boat to look at. Whenever I think of buying another sailboat for Maine, I look at those, and say "that's really pretty." Then you step aboard one and say "that's really small."

One mans 'really small, is another ones perfect size.

Or in this case, a woman's choice for her second boat. She coastal cruised with her family of four in a 22' Stonehorse for 10 or so years.

She picked the Pilot for it's classic looks and layout with a pilot berth for each young son.

But the amazing thing to me is, none of them were sailors before the Stonehorse. The husband was reluctant to go at all.

I saw them last year sailing through the York Narrows off Swans Island with the oldest son at the helm. They looked like they'd all been born on a sailboat.

I tell her that a B-40 is inevitable. And she says 'no way'. We'll see,...

 

[accnick]

One mans 'really small, is another ones perfect size.

Or in this case, a woman's choice for her second boat. She coastal cruised with her family of four in a 22' Stonehorse for 10 or so years.

She picked the Pilot for it's classic looks and layout with a pilot berth for each young son.

But the amazing thing to me is, none of them were sailors before the Stonehorse. The husband was reluctant to go at all.

I saw them last year sailing through the York Narrows off Swans Island with the oldest son at the helm. They looked like they'd all been born on a sailboat.

I tell her that a B-40 is inevitable. And she says 'no way'. We'll see,...

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I might go for a Hinckley 38 if you can find one, even though it's only a little bit larger than the Pilot. Maybe just enough.

 

[Beer fueled Mayhem]

Couple pics of my son and his friends out sailing with me this past Sunday. My kid is a senior in High School. Him and his four buddies approached me about doing Swiftsure this year as a challenge for their last year in HS. I was floored. My kid likes sailing but I never thought he'd do Swiftsure with me.

Of the five, one teaches junior sailing at my yacht club and the others have a couple evening sails with my kid and I. Not much experience at all. No spinnaker experience. No big wind experience either. Of course, Swiftsure could be a Driftsure...

I showed them my asymmetr setup and the dip pole gybing my symmetric kites need. They all want the symmetric. I had to dust off those old kites. I'll bring the asym just in case.
We are doing multiple training days and gybing over and over and over again. They freaking love it!

This is my old ass showing them the remote trip release for the jaws.

 

[Mid]

This is my old ass showing them the remote trip release for the jaws.

they'll be sending ya back to phantasy land quick smart .

Kudos on kick starting another gen of sailors .

 

[Kris Cringle]

This is an old photo taken at 80mm focal length.

80-120mm or so is about as long as I can use in trying to photograph 'sailing', while onboard.

Unless some of the boat is in the frame, it's just another seascape photo that could be taken from shore or another boat.

Lots of light here, a shutter speed of 1/500 froze the water/boat, and f11 kept it all in focus.

 

[bgytr]

First sail of the season this afternoon.

 

[Grith]

First serious flight of the asymmetrical spinnaker on our trailerable cruising yacht.
Spent a couple of hours in 10knots doing around 5knts which was a step up from the about 3.5-4knts under genny and main.

 

[Whinging Pom]

Keep the main set otherwise you'll have nowhere to hid the kite when things go wrong.

 

[justsomeguy!]

Joined an informal regatta and was talked into flying my gennaker/spinnaker for the first time .
We overtook the race leaders on the out leg, but couldn't quite keep up on the return.