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Saturday April 7 started off pretty windy, but it settled down in the evening. Carol’s parents came over for grilled burgers, then Ken joined us and we all went for an evening sail. Bob enjoying the evening. Ken relaxing, cause he is usually doing all the work on his own boat Private Stock when on [...]

Nope, it wasn’t an April Fool Joke, that we were sailing on April 1. The wind started slow at around 3 knots, but quickly grew and peaked at 18 knots while we were out. Perhaps that was Mother Nature’s joke on us that we thought it would be a slow drift in the sun, but [...]

Blake’s grandmother took him to the movies, so we took the opportunity to get in a daysail. We were only out for a few hours, so not many pictures taken. We did have time for a cocktail. There was a regatta taking place. It was a short sail, but at least we made it out [...]

Saturday was forecast to be a nice day and surprisingly that is exactly what it was! We headed out after breakfast and it didn’t take long for many other sailboats to join us on the Pensacola Bay. Pogo was relaxed and enjoying herself. Till the dolphins came out to play. (note the fin) Lunch time! [...]

Wind was forecast to be around 10 knots in the morning and building to 10-15 knots by afternoon. We headed out after lunch with Ken off our stern. The wind was more like 2 knots when we made it out onto the Bay. Ben and Ken were on the VHF discussing whether or not either [...]

Our original plan was to head out Saturday and return on Tuesday. School is out of session for Monday in observance of Reverend Martin Luther King, then is out of session Tuesday for teacher planning day. The weather forecast began really nice for all 4 days, but as it seems to be the new routine, [...]

The morning started foggy with a cool view of s/v Peacemaker heading into the Port of Pensacola. Here’s a picture of Peacemaker later in the day once we were out on the water. Another picture of Peacemaker, which is a large sailing vessel, next to another much larger ship at the port. We had the [...]

Sailing two days in a row in mid-December! Wind started around 12-15 knots, but decreased after about an hour to around 5-10 knots. Many of our marina friends took advantage of the perfect sailing and joined us on the Pensacola Bay. Temps were cooler than the previous day, so Carol and Pogo bundled in the [...]