Approaching the End of the Season

We took a weekend off last weekend and just decided to be lazy, which energized us for this weekend (the last weekend in September).  The past few weeks have been spent worrying some issues around winter storage (we decided on Pederson's here in Keyport) and how we want to cover it (we ordered a reusable canvas winter cover rather than use up all that plastic each year), and with most of those details taken care of, we have a few weekends left to enjoy Seas The Day.

This weekend was very pleasant weather, but light wind.  So we just had two day sails... very relaxing... just Vicky and me and not really caring where we went.  It was a grand time.

We set the sails and slowly made our way out to Old Orchard Shoal, then turned around and literally sailed into the sunset, catching the KYC launch just as the sun was setting behind the trees.

We then headed up to the KYC deck and had dinner (Sushi) on the deck as the twilight faded.

Today, we did a similar activity... first we docked the boat at the KYC dock and filled up on water, then we sailed across the bay (almost to Mt. Loretto Chapel) and back.  We're realizing more and more that a main weakness for both of us is our understanding of sail trim, so we practiced optimizing this during today's journey.

Again it was a nice relaxing day.  We crossed paths with the Miller family (see previous posts) on both ends of the journey on the KYC launches, then headed home to a roast pork (crock-pots are great!) dinner with John.

(Relaxing waiting for the launch after everything is buttoned up for the week.)