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1988 Catalina 27 Tall-Rig

Weekend at the Marina

We dropped Blake’s boat “The Force” into the water on Thursday evening the 13th.  We had hoped for a nice sailing weekend, so we could sail with ‘Private Stock Too’ over to Pirates Cove, but it wasn’t meant to be.  We headed out Friday and made about an hour of headway when the weather discouraged us from continuing with us turning around to head back to port.  Private Stock Too made the trip reporting a nice sail there, but awful weather on their return.

We ended up keeping ‘The Force’ in the water for the weekend, though the weather really wasn’t ever good enough to sail it.  Carol did take it out for about 10 minutes, but the current was too much, so she came back to the dock.

We still had a great time at the marina.  Conrad and Roxanne made it over from Louisiana to hang out on their boat, so they joined us for BBQ pulled pork that Carol made on Saturday.

Carol’s parents made it down to join us for dinner as well.  Brice ,then Ken and Sherie (Private Stock Too), showed up for cocktails with Ken bringing his guitar for some impromptu Karaoke.

We finally called it quits about midnight.  Carol, Blake, and I stayed on Monomoy for the night and headed home this morning for coffee and breakfast.

We didn’t get any real sailing in over the weekend, but we still had a great time.  Now if we can just dodge these upcoming tropical cyclones, then perhaps we’ll get another chance at sailing to Pirates Cove.

August 16th, 2009 Posted by Captain | At the Dock | no comments

Dock Sailing

May 9, 2009…

The photos today were taken by camera phone, so the quality isn’t the best, but you get the idea.

We spent the first half of the day catching up on yard work at home, so we didn’t make it out sailing, but we did go hang out on the boat at the dock for the afternoon and grilled burgers for dinner.

Our dock neighbor was returning from a day of wind surfing at the time we were done grilling the burgers, so we invited him over and he graciously accepted bringing a bottle of wine. Our dock neighbor lives in Quebec and speaks French as a native language, but does pretty well speaking English; he drives down to Florida during the summer months to enjoy sailing his Pearson 32 on Pensacola Bay. So we enjoyed the chit-chat.

The Oar House was busy in their typical fashion.

Oar House

The sun was beautiful as it set behind the Chico Bridge.

Chico Bridge Sunset

May 10th, 2009 Posted by Captain | At the Dock | no comments