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been out getting wild for a few weeks and need to get caught up. I
don’t know where to start so I’ll just pull out a tale from
the bunch. My neighbor John took the “Z-Team” initiation
a few weeks ago with a sail adventure up the coast to Lexington. We
had planed to sail into Pt. Sanilac but at 4:30pm the NOAA weather
radio still had no marine forecast posted for the next day. This is
always a bad sign. Being on a short time window of Saturday and Sunday
we chose not to get to far from home in case the weather turns ugly.
John took the wheel and had no trouble navigating the 10-15 kt winds
holding a 20+ degree heel most of the day! A notable feat for a first
time sailor. He’s been bitten by the bug and is fired up for
another sail. As it turned out our worries of the weather proved sound
and the 30kt North wind on Sunday whipped up some ugly choppy waves
overnight and made sailing back not a safe decision(possibility of
spilled beers). After much soul searching we took a ride back to our
cars from some very nice yachters who made the wise chose of leaving
their boats docked and driving home. I returned the following Tuesday
with a buddy from work, Jeff and sailed it back home on a perfect
day with lots of sun and plenty of autopilot. The whole trip was one
you wish you could put in a bottle and save. Jeff was also hooked
and that set the stage for the next caper................... |
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