A Great Day Out on the Bay

We had a very pleasant weekend this past week.  A fun day of sailing and two nice evenings.

It started out with a drive down to Rock Hall.  Vicky had worked the night shift and was tired... she finally found a way to sleep in the car that had me worried someone might think I was kidnapping her.  Once there, she went to work on her hobby (cleaning the outside of Seas The Day and I worked on figuring out how to get the companionway stairs removed so we could reach all the battery cells.  We finished the evening enjoying a movie together.

Saturday was just a great day on the bay.  We were escorted out of our slip by a family of geese.

We went out past Gratitude and turned South before heading East and raising the sails.

Once we got out on the bay and started sailing, we really put Seas The Day through some paces.  I don't know how much we were heeling, and these pictures don't capture it well, but I'm guessing we got it close to 20 or 25 degrees (my old chart plotter on the 315 displayed this info... i ordered a manual inclinometer for the new boat).

We came close to "burying the rail" on our old 315 exactly once with a guest skipper one of the first times out.  Even at this heel level, we were clearly nowhere close to burying the rail... it was at least 3 ft above the water.  I expect we'd have to be almost knocked over to get the rail to the water.  (We usually like to stay closer to 10 degrees for efficiency.)

Vicky is on the high side...

... and I'm on the low side.  

I swear it's the wind forces... not a weight issue (at least partly).

This is the modern equivalent of a lighthouse... one of the range lights for the ship channels.

We finished the day sailing and I cooked a surf and turf dinner... some sliced steak with mushrooms and a crab-cake for each of us.  We got to enjoy that out in the cockpit while watching storms go around us to the south and east.

Sunday morning was hot and humid... Vicky had to work the night shift so I let her sleep in during the morning.  At some point we decided to just grab lunch from Osprey Point restaurant and head back... sort of a lazy day.

Speaking of lazy, we're basically now basically living aboard on weekends... so one of the things we need to figure out is how to keep a bit active while in such a small space.  Seas The Day lacks the fitness room we have in the basement so Vicky has found a (really small) space to do her workouts and I was able to use the same place to work with the resistance bands... it's (a little) better than nothing.  We'll have to supplement this with some walks.