Anthony E. Short<\/a>\u00a0and family. \u00a0We expect most of the Steuben County Family to be there so it should be a fun event.<\/p>\nWell, I will close this missive and say good evening to you all.<\/p>\n
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After a morning of house type work and a short afternoon nap it looked like the wind was up enough for a sail around Pleasant Lake. \u00a0The day was bight and clear except for some cumulus typical for our summer season. \u00a0The ripples on the lake were not that encouraging however. \u00a0Still, we cast off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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After a morning of house type work and a short afternoon nap it looked like the wind was up enough for a sail around Pleasant Lake. \u00a0The day was bight and clear except for some cumulus typical for our summer season. \u00a0The ripples on the lake were not that encouraging however. \u00a0Still, we cast off and motored out in the lake to bend the sails and set up the rigging. \u00a0As with any new boat, it takes some time for things to become automatic and we tried a new technique – that was a failure – of hoisting the main sail and then trying to feed the boltrope into the boom later. \u00a0That definitely does not work so from now on it will be setting up the boom first \u00a0[Things would be a lot easier if she had a topping lift to hold up the boom whilst trying to bend the sails]. \u00a0Perhaps this winters modifications will add the topping lift. \u00a0Another lesson learned is that we need a block on the aft end of the boom to reverse directions so as to pull tight the foot of the main sail. \u00a0Trying to do this by had just is too hard whilst you are doing two or three other things to get underway.\u00a0The sail was leisurely and SAM did a good job of tending the tiller while I fiddled with sails and rigging. \u00a0We made several trips around the lake, tacking and jibing a lot, sometimes with good speed and sometimes just barely moving. \u00a0It was a good day to experiment and one time a lesson was learned to un-sheet the main immediately and not to wait for an excessive heel to take place :). \u00a0That little maneuver was pretty dicey and almost capsized us. \u00a0Still we had fun and the motor worked well when we needed it. \u00a0We will have the skills to really put her through the paces pretty soon.<\/p>\n