Hey, Steven: Bill Riker's M-15 kept up with our M-17s quite well, and in some places led the way. I hope it was all the extra weight on my boat (two people, inflatable, cooler full of goodies, lots of food,etc. etc. blah blah blah) and not my sailing ability. Chad Parrish was very quick in his M-17 too. I hope you'll consider joining us next year! Gordon On Sep 24, 2008, at 9:42 PM, Paint4Real@aol.com wrote:
Now I'm really feeling sorry for myself, that you folks made it through the Apostles, over many days, without mishap and apparently without shipping cold water. I've been through there on 27s and 29s and had a lark but also was pushed to my limit with wind and wave. I look back on the long weekend and realize there was no way I could get away, so I have to let it go. But do it again, and I'll have my 15 (Shenanigans) ready for the ride.
I think there was a 15 in the fleet -- how did that work out? If the 17s were sheeting in for speed, it may have gotten lonely amongst the lesser LWLs -- though the lower weight has always kept my 15 up on top and skimming along just fine, especially against other boats whose skippers didn't know I was "racing" them.
Those Vikings and Voyageurs must have been hardy folks. I'm still only cautiously interested in being on Superior in a small vessel. But I'm also within minutes' worth of a driveway where Gerry Speiss built Yankee Girl from plywood, in his driveway, and sailed her to England, holding a small-vessel record for it, for a long time. So there are lots of lines drawn in the sand around here, in Minnesota. At least when the sand isn't covered with ice. (Keeps the riff-raff out.)
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