s/v Monomoy's blog

We awoke bright and early on Saturday morning with the pleasure of watching the sunrise. We departed the dock around 8am with the wind steady and perfect all day. We were cruising around 6.3 knots a good portion of the day. We headed out to the Gulf with Pirate Blake on the lookout. Pogo relaxed. [...]

August 27 & 28th were prefect sailing days. We set sail Saturday morning for a cruise around the bay. Wind was hovering around 15 knots; other sailors were taking full advantage. Pelicans flying by. Ken solo on s/v Private Stock. Rich and Carol on s/v Blue Ocean cruised up and said HI. Jim on s/v [...]

Well, it was the last weekend of summer vacation 2011 and the weather was looking great, so we set sail Friday for Little Sabine. There was only one other sailboat on the bay and a barge. Ben can easily work from Little Sabine with the WiFi setup we have on the boat, so it allows [...]

Monday and Tuesday promised to be gorgeous and with it being the last week of summer vacation, we had to take advantage, so we tossed the dock lines and set sail for Little Sabine. We had a really nice sail over, swam, and had fish sandwiches topped with crawfish for dinner; it was fantastic. Unfortunately [...]

Our intention was to sail over to Ft. McRee early in the day along with friends. We set sail around 10am Friday morning to a clear radar, but by noon storms were all over. Since our friends hadn’t yet departed the dock, we decided to return to the marina, have lunch, and figure out what [...]

We burn through a lot of amp hours with the electronics we have on the boat. Between the 1000w sonar, chartplotter, WiFi, autopilot, electric head, and lights, the amperage adds up. We carry around 700 amp hours of battery power aboard via 6 batteries, which means that about half is available for consumption. Of course [...]

August 4 is Ben’s birthday, so we had to celebrate by sailing over to Hooter’s for lunch with friends. Carol was prepared with Mimosa material. There was no wind at first. Wait, I see wind in the distance. The wind picked up and we enjoyed a show from our military running exercises. This was an [...]

We started the day with Tammy going up Joe’s mast to replace a broken halyard. After taking care of some work for the day, we headed out for a daysail on the bay. Blake and his Mario. There were lots of sailboats on the bay. Carol looking pretty as always. Joe and Jen sailing the [...]