Action sailing pics of us in our M from last weekend

Paul S · Post by **Paul S** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:59 am

Just wanted to post some pictures of us as seen from another boat as we were sailing last weekend. Almost got the rubrail in the water. The people on the boat said our daggerboard started to come out of the water. These pics are not the furthest we were leaning!

Some additional pictures we took are here:
http://www.geocities.com/yellow_mgb/mac ... en_harbor/

Paul

mallardjusted · Post by **mallardjusted** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:43 am

Do you have an inclinometer (sp?) to know how many degrees?

Paul S · Post by **Paul S** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:46 am

not sure about those pics (maybe 20). We did max out around 30+ at a few points

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:51 am

"ACTION" Sailing is my favorite kind !!!! Awesome pics!!

captin5317 · Post by **captin5317** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:16 pm

Great shots! I have some on the way from a friend, will post when I get em! Last few weeks here the winds have been good. Lake sailing can be interesting. The winds can change in a heart beat, been caught 3 times in the last 2 weeks by surprize. Almost tested the Macs self righting ability last time out. We had some newbies to the sport last time out when a gust caught us by surprize. My wife was in the cabin pouring me a marg when it hit. The couple with us had no idea the diff between a rudder and a jib. Generally I always keep the main sheet in hand or on my lap for just this ocassion. This time I didnt, it was at my feet. The gust hit! I yelled! RELEASE THE MAIN SHEET!!! it didnt happen :>( I yelled! RELEASE THE BIG SAIL! it didnt happen :>( MY wife stuck her head out the cabin grabed the main sheet and released, all the while pulling the main sheet between my toes!!! talk about rope burn! In any event scarred the crap outa all of us! We were at 40 plus on the inclinometer. Often get to 35+ on the Inclinometer
Bruce

KayakDan · Post by **KayakDan** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:06 pm

Paul,very nice pic's! Wish we had been able to get some of our boat in action at the first RI meet. Excellent place to sail. Plenty of wind!
Will you be going to Champlain? I really need to check out some of your mods.
Dan
26M "Spice"

Idle Time · Post by **Idle Time** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:33 pm

Nice....keep them coming.

Paul S · Post by **Paul S** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:54 pm

KayakDan wrote:Paul,very nice pic's! Wish we had been able to get some of our boat in action at the first RI meet. Excellent place to sail. Plenty of wind!
Will you be going to Champlain? I really need to check out some of your mods.
Dan
26M "Spice"

Won't make it to champlain. we will be on the boat on the Charles River for the 4th of july fireworks

we will go to most of the other outings..and will post some on the sail-together board on the ne-ts site when we do go..

email/pm me some time and come over..boat is in front of our house..will walk you through some of the stuff I did

Paul

aya16 · Post by **aya16** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:25 pm

got to love these boats. all the fun and sun and you used how much gas?
For those that want to know. The blue boat in the pix looks to be heeling
around 25 or so. Looking at the wind direction (from the flag) the main sail seems pulled in to tight. If the main were to be eased at that point
the blue boat would have come up some to 15-20 deg. it would also have picked up a knot or two speed. My guess is you had about 10-15 knots of wind right? the last pix seems to show the blue boat up to about the right
deg. of heel so my guess is that the sail was eased or there was a course change. It also apears to be pulling away from the white boat at that time.

Night Sailor · Post by **Night Sailor** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:33 pm

I too thought there was a lot of heeling for there being no whitecaps on the water. Maybe it was the main pulled in too close. Maybe all the beer was on the port side....

What was the wind speed, and boat speed. Was it slower because it got the blue part into the water?

Post by **NiceAft** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:08 pm

Paul,

Nice shots.

Thanks

Ray

LOUIS B HOLUB · Post by **LOUIS B HOLUB** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:15 am

A "blue" Mac on the water in full sail mode ..."beautiful" -- and check out those "stars 'n stripes" displayed

They Theirs · Post by **They Theirs** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:43 am

LOUIS B HOLUB wrote:
A "blue" Mac on the water in full sail mode..."beautiful" -- and check out those "stars 'n stripes" displayed

I concur!

Mark Prouty · Post by **Mark Prouty** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:54 am

Great pictures.

I have to get another boat to take pics like that when I'm sailing.

Lloyd Franks · Post by **Lloyd Franks** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:58 pm

I could never get any of my boats to sail unless the stars and stripes were flying...Isn't that a given

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Action sailing pics of us in our M from last weekend

Action sailing pics of us in our M from last weekend

wind speed?