First Sail of 2009

I vowed to get my CP16 on the water Friday, whether there was wind or not. Unfortunately there wasn't much for wind, but we had a good time putzing around the river. We put into the St. Croix River, just below the I-94 bridge between Stillwater and Hudson.

The river was like glass, not many other boats out (a lot of the big boats are still shrink wrapped on shore).

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There wasn't enough wind to fill the main, so we put up the symmetrical spinnaker and flew it more like an asymmetrical. That got us up to about 2 knots.

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After about an hour and a half the wind died completely, so we fired up the motor and went for a little ride. Angie took over the helm so I could take some pictures.

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The only other sailboat out was this one. He motored up when we had the spinnaker up to say hi. Turned out to be a Com-Pac 23 and the other guy on board owned a Com-Pac 19. I didn't get a chance to get the camera out until they were pretty far off.

It's April, the ice is hardly off the water, the majority of the powerboat and big boats aren't in the water, there's no wind, and who do you find on the water? A couple of guys with Com-Pacs.

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