Weather: Sunny and warm. Winds: WNW 5-10. Seas <1ft.
With the garden set, there was no need for us to hang out at home. This year's trip is south, to south sound vice north into Canada. RT is restricted to home waters with Emma's swim schedule and MM's work schedule. No big deal as we had never been to south sound! Took the dogs with us this time.
Late start waiting for favorable tide and a nice
sail today with mostly light winds from a reach or broad reach
direction. Started with main and genoa but was not making much headway
with these heavier sails. Without the screacher, I popped the spinnaker
and found the new barber hauler set up worked great! Was able to move
the spinnaker tack upwind, exposing more of the sail and less blanketing
by the main. At one point, we were clipping along at a steady state
6.5kts with no trimming required. I setup a chair on the back porch,
put my feet up on the transom, arms are the rail with a Blue Moon. Much
like sitting is an easy chair! 'twas great!
Wind died south of Port Townsend and we motored into Kingston, arriving too late for Mora's Ice Cream.
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