
doing things
Published January 12, 2023 sailing 2 CommentsTags: blog, blogging, calvin and hobbes, family, humor, sailing, sunfish

christmas joy… division
Published December 9, 2022 sailing 2 CommentsTags: blog, blogging, Christmas, disorder, joy division, sailing, today's tunes, woot

‘Til the (Christmas) spirit, new sensation takes hold, then you know
a lyrical twist on Joy Division’s song “Disorder”, from their stellar album “Unknown Pleasures”
the cover art is replicated above, but with a little Christmas tree twist. found via Woot.
under the weather
Published December 6, 2022 sailing 4 CommentsTags: blog, blogging, humor, sail, sailing, sunfish, sunfish sailing

simplified racing rules of Sunfish sailing (video)
Published December 1, 2022 sailing Leave a CommentTags: blog, racing rules of sailing, sail, sailing, sunfish, sunfish class, sunfish race, sunfish sailing, video
Lee Montes keeps putting out great Sunfish sailing videos, and this time he’s helping to explain the racing rules of sailing. honestly – this is probably the biggest thing holding me back from racing with the GDSC or any Sunfish Class event — my lack of understanding of the racing rules of sailing, and worrying that I’d foul another racer and piss them off.
I’ve tried to summarize his main points, but watch the video yourself and see if you catch any other key points I might have missed:
the most important rule: don’t hit any other boats!
1. port (wind goes over the left, sail is on the right) vs starboard tack (wind goes over the right, sail is on the left)… the starboard tack boat USUALLY has right of way, so avoid them, or give them right of way.
2. if overlapped on the same tack, windward vs leeward boat – the leeward boat has right of way (avoid any boat on your sail side of the boat)
3. clear ahead AND on the same tack – the boat overtaking the boat ahead must give way
4. while tacking or jibing, stay clear of other boats
sunfish worlds day 1 video
Published September 7, 2022 sailing 1 CommentTags: laser performance, sailing, sunfish, sunfish class, sunfish race, sunfish sailing, sunfish worlds, video
Lake Garda in Italy is a beautiful venue for sailing!
LaserPerformance is posting video and picture updates on Instagram.
sailing log: 2022-08-02
Published August 9, 2022 sailing 2 CommentsTags: arcadia, camp arcadia, family, Garmin, Garmin Connect, great lakes, lake michigan, laser performance, michigan, minifish, sail, sailing, sunfish, sunfish class, sunfish rigging, sunfish sailing, vacation
Tuesday afternoon’s are never ending?
we vacationed for another family vacation week up at Camp Arcadia and the weather cooperated nicely on Tuesday afternoon – with smaller rolling waves and decent winds to take advantage of out on the waters of Lake Michigan.

after sailing solo for a bit, I swung back towards shore and picked up our youngest son Iggy, but my pics of him were taken through a dry bag for my iPhone and ended up super blurry.

it also was a big day for our 14-yr old son – he took sailing lessons in Opti’s ( more than a couple years ago), but time/circumstance/weather hadn’t ever given him a chance yet to solo sail our Minifish or Sunfish. but this afternoon, he got some last-minute tips from T2 (our oldest), and just jumped right in the Minifish and started sailing.

I tried to stay at least in his general area (me sailing on the Sunfish), but I shouldn’t have worried about it – he did great, didn’t tip over or sail into anything, and got some great solo sailing experience. after a while, I let T2 sail the Sunfish – here he is on the Sunfish w/ Luke on the Minifish.

I’m really pleased with using my Garmin watch to track the sailing activities – just a couple clicks on the watch and it’s ready to track the sailing, and after I upload the activity to Garmin Connect, then I can change the “activity” to “sailing” and it changes to nautical miles and knots.

and here’s a blow-up view of the tracking route

it was a great afternoon on the beautiful waters of Lake Michigan!
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