I've been pretty lazy lately, and haven't updated much in too long. So here's a tidbit.
This video was on a practice race up to Punta mita and back. I still don't have my mainsail and jib fixed, and its been a long time, so on Monday I got them from the loft where they had been sitting and took them to another loft, where I think they will get done faster. I hope. So in the mean time I have my staysail, my a2 (the whomper, a big white spinnaker) and the a5 blue and yellow spinnaker.
But then a week ago I was given two big jibs, and so I put one of those up as a mainsail
In this photo you can see its a jib. Anyway, with that as my mainsail I can go upwind pretty well, so I was trying it out. I made it to mita in under 2 hours, which is a velocity made good of 5 kts, but I was tacking and so going further, but at about 7 kts.
Then I turned and put up the big whomper and started going 10-12 kts all the way back. It took about an hour.
I did put a small tear in my a5, and I just sewed that up, but I gotta figure out a way to keep my sails healthy. And I think I want a second a2. It's such a fun sail.
Anyways, it's springtime, the whales are thinking about heading north, and I am too, but it'll be a little while yet. I hope to do another trip somewhere around here before I go to work too. Maybe to socorro.?
The air is warming up a bit, and the water will soon get clear and warm and then it will be summer!
And here's an iguana I met a few days ago...
