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well winter is officially over for myself and c130 king,Jim and i met at my home harbour and went for a blast down the Norfolk Coast. Click for album, examples below.

Our destination was a small anchorage called Sea Pallling,and as it was our first real venture out on the open ocean we decided that 60nm there and back was a good enough first run. The weather was around force 4 (16-19knot wind) we had the tide in our favour from HW-2 untill HW+4,at one point we hit 8.4 knots sog. we had a few firsts,beaching the boat and anchoring overnight.

I had a great time and would like to thank Jim for being a great sailing buddy.









i hope these piccys work

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What Tang said.

Rick

I was only able to download one picture, but it was great to see.

I'm sure this is the sort of story which makes Heath feel like a real success. Because of him, two men (strangers actually) meet on the Internet, and are able to hook up for a sleep over with each other Maybe I ought to rephrase

Ray

ive sorted out the pics

yes its a tribute to this forum that two guys from accross the pond can meet up and go sailing

What was the temperature (without the windchill factor)?

Ray

dont know what the deg farenheight comes out at but it was around 15 deg c on saturday,a bit chilly but not cold,on sunday morning it was quite pleasant,the wind dropped so we were on engine and it felt warm at around 18-20 c

I saw the wet suit, and wondered how cold it must have been. 15c (59f) is not bad.

I'm still a few weeks away from a launch. A Bar Mitzvah on Long Island on May3. Mothers Day in Annapolis on May 11, and then Nice Aft goes kersplash the next weekend


Ray

Nice pics and u did look all that chilled. Congrats on ure first Blue Water adventure!





Allan

Well done Matt, looks like a great w/e Nice photos.

Saturday would have been a good day for sailing here, but I had other commitments .

I intended to make a day of it today (Sunday) but it was thunder showers all morning so I decided to wait until they passed - only left me the afternoon. Gave me a chance to check out the new prop though - works much better, getting full revs on the engine and up to 16kts top speed.

I think maybe I should have gone for a 10 pitch, not 9, as the engine's now over-revving a bit. I'll give it time but I may need to get it re-pitched.

Cheers, Rick

it was a great weekend ,jim is a lot more clued up than i am about sailing,i lost count on the number of times that i jammed the furler jim helped to point out my mistakes.

As for the weather,well my wife rand to warn us of rain,we left SP at around 6.30 am and motored out a gas tank,then switched to sailing in light winds getting around 3-4 knots,it was a glorious morning,nice and sunny,a bit overcast but no rain,untill we tied up at the mooring,then it started to drizzle with a stronger wind,but we did not care by then.

Matt,

Once again thanks for taking this "mac-less" yank sailing. You forgot to mention the best part...mucking in the mud with our wellies.

Matt's marina almost completely dries out twice a day. To get started we had to muck out to the boat at low tide...and then sit there until it started floating. And then when we returned we moored up about 1.5 hours after high tide and had to wait about another 1.5 hours for the tide to drop so that the boat was sitting in about 8" of water so that we could muck our way back to the shore. But during that 1.5 hour wait we cooked the left over bacon and had some sandwiches...

And he forgot to tell you all that we had Fish n' Chips Friday night ...and we barbequed some outstanding Grade A USDA approved, prime cut ribeyes on the Magma for dinner Saturday night.

There were seals swimming around us. And my first ever overnight at anchor...but that anchor Matt has would hold an aircraft carrier so we didn't have to worry about slipping. What a grand trip

As the Brits over here say...PROPER JOB

And by the way...that is not a wet suit...that is the West Marine "Banana Boy" special Musto foulies that I got for about $89. It was not really that cold but they do cut the wind out very well. I will post some pics of Matt and the boat sitting in the mud this evening when I get home.

Jim

jim

i can send you the link for the photo site that has all of the pictures of the seal

matt

I am really enjoying this thread you blokes.
Great.
Look forward to more snaps of you two.
Cheers
Phillip

rick,what engine do you have? i have the YAm big foot