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.
Century Club: Rebekah Bromwell
Monday, May 11, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
"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.
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
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.
Friday, May 8, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Coached a very tough docking lesson in extremely quick wind shifts, and then a second lesson for someone reinforcing skills. Fairly spicy until sundown.
Monday, May 4, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
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.
Saturday, May 2, 2026 to Sunday, May 3, 2026
Number of days:
2 days
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.
Friday, May 1, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
The day started with glassy water but we finally got out to some decent steady 5-8kts and find some great figure 8 POBs. After lunch we went back out planning more fig 8s, but got overwhelmed with 20kts and INSANE traffic. Sugar barge, 3 tugs, pilot boat, BKI practice boats plus safety boat with instructor observer, the Neapolitan and 3 water taxis all within a tiny segment of water and time. Finally got out enough to heave to and reef. Ended the day with docking practice. Am exhausted and have no voice left.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Spent about 10 hours zipping around the bay trouble shooting new rigging and testing out sails. Spent a ton of it at 10kts. Really fun day. Wind was from the NW 11-27 all day. Mostly sunny in the 60s.