In a message dated 6/5/2011 4:39:35 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, wdscobie@yahoo.com writes: congrats Robbin on getting the boat in the water! good to see a great boat sailing again. :: Dave Scobie :: M17 #375 - SWEET PEA - www.m17-375.webs.com :: Sage Marine - www.sagemarine.com :: Reserve your SAGE 17 today! --- On Sun, 6/5/11, robbin roddewig <robbin.roddewig@verizon.net> wrote:
Fellow listers, got the boat in the water on Friday (I think we have established her official name as The Other Woman, could put a nice logo with this like they had on the WWII bombers, but I digress) and got her all set up and sailing Saturday. Beautiful day out on the Chesapeake Bay and the boat and all the crew took full advantage of it. She sails really sweet! We had the main and 150 up for most of the day and she was gliding along at 4knots on most all points of sail. We had a blast! More interesting time in the evening after a calm when some storms came into the area and it went from dead calm to white caps fairly tightly spaced in a matter of 15-20 minutes. We had to eventually douse the 150 as if the weather report can be believed the gusts were 25 knots. The boat was very re-assuring (you all knew of course) and had no problem at all. We did get the rail wet before we reduced sail, fun ride! I will set up the reefing on the main before going out today. It was very nice to be sailing her as opposed to looking at the bottom of her hull! BTW we had a chance to use our new navigation kit yesterday from Weems and Plath. I would highly recommend it for novice navigators like me. I was using an app on my iPhone to get the GPS lat long called GPS Tracker. It worked great but its nautical mode still only have coordinates in degrees with decimal causing us to have to convert to minutes and seconds. Can anyone recommend an app that has a more convenient format? I was considering buying a hand held but would prefer to not spend the money (as there has been a loud sucking sound by my wallet lately as I got the boat ready to spash) and I am not ready to consider a automatic chart plotter/depth finder/ fish locator this season.
Cheers Robbin M-23 #056 "The Other Woman" and M-10 Tonka
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