Best sailing picture from Summer 2021?

[goldenstate]

C'mon, give me the sailing stoke!

Here's a favorite from my Drake's Bay trip.
It was blowing hard and scary to anchor, but everything worked and it was good adventure with the sun settling in behind the bluff.

 

[bigd14]

The Captain shall always be obeyed.

 

[Jerry VB]

"It's all she's got"

 

[Teranodon]

This was an overnight raftup, with stern-ties to the beach, in a tiny un-named anchorage on the east end of Patos Island in the San Juans. My E34 is on the end. Patos is a gem.

 

[frosero7744]

Jazz Cup pic on a friends Catalina 30 before the great wind hole of 2021. This years race was renamed the Drift Cup.

 

[goldenstate]

This was an overnight raftup, with stern-ties to the beach, in a tiny un-named anchorage on the east end of Patos Island in the San Juans. My E34 is on the end. Patos is a gem.

Great picture! Lovely peaceful anchorage. How did you fix the beach stern tie? Did you drive a stake in the sand or tie off to a tree etc.?

 

[Teranodon]

Great picture! Lovely peaceful anchorage. How did you fix the beach stern tie? Did you drive a stake in the sand or tie off to a tree et

Stern tying can get you into mamy interesting places around here. I usually loop the line around a tree or driftwood log. Here is my DIY setup:

 

[goldenstate]

Stern tying can get you into may interesting places around here. I usually loop the line around a tree or driftwood log. Here is my DIY setup:

Nice! I like your DIY spool rig.

 

[goldenstate]

I will penalize myself for multiple contributions, but here's another one, getting close up with a humpback offshore:



and my elderly Coronado 15, Bandit, up in the mountains, trying to convince the boat to tack in 2-5 flakey knots, with a rafting paddle. The same day a fire helicopter was scooping water out of this lake to try to extinguish what became the Caldor fire, which threatened South Lake Tahoe and burned half of El Dorado County. Fire still hasn't stopped burning, over 5 weeks later.

 

[Gaviate]

Sure, we sailors have fun...but how about a dinghy ride?!
Well I have a cool video that won't upload here but here is 2nd place for after the sail and in preparation for July 3rd fireworks over the harbor waters.

 

[tpcorrigan]

Sunset of Avon Point from Rocky River, OH




approaching Cleveland at night. (Sept 2020)

 

[Jerry VB]

"Jerry Rigged" as seen from "Falcon"
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Falcon is the boat in the posting #3 above. After I took pictures of her, she passed and Greg took this picture of us. We recognized the boat as one that was hauled/launched by our marina and were able to make contact and exchange photos via the marina office staff.

 

[dhill]

Ghosting along in the late afternoon in Boothbay Harbor, ME.

 

[Lawdog]

Sailing along in Casco Bay, Maine

 

[Loren Beach]

No way to compete or compare with that great Casco Bay 'magazine cover shot' !!
... Here we are with some buddy boats at a small down river port on Sept 23. No wind for sailing but we had a good 5 day cruise anyway. This was just about the last of the 70 degree weather for the season.
Read some books and enjoyed happy hour times with our friends.
Winds were about 1 kt gusting to 3 kts for several days !

 

[kapnkd]

Here’s one from one of my cruises in the Bahamas back in the mid ‘70’s.

We were between the Northern Berry Islands returning to Bimini over the Grand Bahama Bank ...in the middle of nowhere... actually finding one of the marks with only our limited RDF and dead reckoning abilities at that time.

 

[Shankara]

Cruising out around the Crescent City lighthouses this weekend was pretty awesome. Nice wind and lots of whales!

 

[Mark David]

start of the 2021 Hook race

 

[Gary Holford]

 

[Prairie Schooner]

When we brought our 'new' E35-3 home. And thereon hangs a tale.