Took Hunter out for a chance to run the boat as if he was doing a member sail. We topped up the diesel (only 4.2 gal?!) and motored out past ft mchenry to find excellent wind. I was really expecting nothing but it was an absolutely lovey sail around fr carol and all the way back to Dominos before dropping sails. James and Jess's were great crew.
pretty warm and humid, wind from the SW 5-15
GORGEOUS day with absolutely lovely wind, but we didn't get to sail too much in between rigging the ATN, deploying the drogue and practicing steering with it, and knocking out some POBs. Finished the day by adjusting more safety equipment placement and showing off my AMAZING propane hose replacement. Heh.
Sailed around herring bay for a few hours working out our preventer and attempting some spinnaker jibes. Then spent the rest of the day trying to get the old propane hose off to no avail. Used pb blaster even. Will try again with vise grips, but probably have to remove the whole locker assembly. Bleh.
"Mentored" (hah) Rich into boat yoga-ing into the lazarette under the engine panel and adjusted the ignition so the wires to the tach and off button weren't being pulled tight. Still really need to deal with the ignition so this stops happening.
Hunter and James joined after that and we had an actual mentoring session. They are doing awesome with docking, and then they each anchored as well before calling it a night.
Didn't do great, too windy to practice spin before race, new people, etc. Still was good to finally get everyone out to practice for the first time. Gorgeous sail back to HH after.
Coached a very tough docking lesson in extremely quick wind shifts, and then a second lesson for someone reinforcing skills. Fairly spicy until sundown.
Did a few little finishing touches on Akimbo before splashing and driving back to DSC. Then cruising mentoring in the evening with POBs and docking practice. Something seems to have come loose in the electrical panel to the engine hours widget and the shutoff button though because we couldn't turn the engine off at all. :-( I showed the guys how to empty the lazarette to get access to the air filter and block it.
Did a distance race on Saturday and Sunday in the PHRF class. Did terribly but made some new friends. Really lovely group of people on Querencia 2. On Saturday we had 7 people and used the symmetrical spinnaker, but on Sunday with gusts to 30 and down 2 crew we skipped it. I learned what TLE means lol.