Sunday, January 24, 2016

Sailing with Jon (from Montana), Skiiny and Donna

The weather didn't play nice, so even though we had paid our entry for the Surf 2 City, we didn't race. The breeze was a northerly which was going to be right on the nose.

Plan B. Get together anyway and go for a fun sail. We headed toward Deception Bay from Sandgate for a few hours while the northerly built from 5-8 knots to 12-15kt on our kite ride return.


Skinny at the back while Jon has a brush of the mooooostash!
 
 
We had the big black kite up for a 45 odd minute, 10-13kt boat speed, run home......good fun and all recorded on gps - so no fudged boat speed numbers, pretty cool !

Three monkeys- Jon having a steer to windward
 
 
Skinny had us on the plain all the way home while Donna sat back and enjoyed the ride and Jon and I took turns trimming the monster black kite.


Skinny keeping Jon busy trimming the kite (breeze yet to build)
 

New bow shape was working nicely and impressing Jon (i550 owner and sailor)
 

 The big black kite was great fun.



A little footage of the windward work.

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