Perfect Weekend! 03/12-03/13

This past weekend was the best we’ve seen so far and hope it is a sign of gorgeous sailing weather to come this year.

We stayed on the boat at the marina Friday evening after splashing her earlier in the day.

We awoke to a beautiful sunrise Saturday morning.

The sky was clear and wind was calm.

We got an early start and motored out of the channel around 8am CST.

Is it too early for a Corona?

Temps were already warming up and even though we had 1 knot of wind registering, we were actually sailing at ~2 knots.

Carol and Pogo catching some sun.

Carol made some h’orderves. Excuse the dirty looking hatch, we rinsed Monomoy’s deck after splashing (she was dusty after the yard), but didn’t use soap, so we’ll have to take care of that this week.

Enjoying the day.

We anchored at McRee around 2pm CST; there were many other boats already there.

Sailing into McRee.

We had a late lunch grilled up in the cockpit; yummy.

Then dink’d to shore for a walk.

Blake playing.

Blake’s pirate dog taking a break in the grass.

As the sun started to drop in the sky, it did cool a touch, but not bad.

Ben and Carol.

Nightwatch sailed in, turned around (I suspect due to crowding at the anchorage) and headed back out to Redfish Point.

‘Two Beers’ and family showed up for a brief beach pitstop during the evening.

Five boats (4 sail, 1 power) rafted up.

Sunset at Ft. McRee.

Sunday morning we were up around 7am (slept in; though can you really call it that since time went up an hour overnight?) and had our coffee.

Of course we have Internet at anchorage, so Blake was on his computer.

Sunrise.

The sunrise was beautiful, though Pogo seemed to think was still too early for so much activity.

Let’s do this!

Well, maybe just sit back with a bag of chips instead.

We weighed anchor around 8am and set sail. Wind started around 9 knots, dropped to around 4 knots, then back up to around 11 knots; we didn’t complain and zipped right along at 5.5-6 knots.

It was warmer Sunday than Saturday, so Carol was excited to put on her tan lotion.

Skye Myst cruise by (opposite direction). We met them in the yard, when they were doing a bottom job next to our boat.

Some darker looking clouds were moving in, though we were supposed to get any rain, but we decided to head in around 2:30pm CST to the marina and take out the little boats.

Here is Ken sailing his Catyak.

Carol sailing Blake’s boat The Force.

Blake opted not to sail The Force, but did steer as I towed the boat back over to the dinghy dock.

Here’s a video of our weekend.