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This is not intended to enrage anyone but to reassure those who cannot sail
right now that it still feels good. I would have liked to have read
something like this when roles were reversed.
We are transplanted Chicagoans - trucked the boat to California just this
May for this express purpose - to live aboard on the coast. So we know what
it's like: to be on the hard for half a year, dreaming about sailing,
spending twice as much for storage as we spent for a mooring can, sitting in
the cockpit in the freezing cold trying to find something to do on the boat
that won't give you frostbite and will still give that sense of
accomplishment. Right now, if we still lived in Chicago, the biggest event
on the horizon would be the Strictly Sail show on Navy Pier.
We experienced the reward yesterday as we spent the first day of the new
millennium on Monterey Bay. The thermometer showed 74F and although we were
seeing 6' swells, there was so little wind we raised the spinnaker for the
first time on this boat. We had been scared to do this becase the last time
I raised a spinnaker, UK charged me $100 to repair it! No problems and we
saw 5 kts over ground with 6 kts apparent wind off the port quarter. Did
all you two-handers know how docile a 1000sqft spinnaker can be to douse
when you point her up into the wind?
Don't wake me up, Toto.
Brooke Oberg and Ed Pare'
S/V CELESTE
P.O. Box 552
Moss Landing, CA 95039
Email:
Phone: Good Luck!
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