This weekend Adam came out to sail. We had a great time out on the lake. About 5 hours of sailing around the bay. By the time we got back we looked a bit redder than when we left even with sunscreen. Today the redness is gone but my lips are sun burnt guess I need to get some spf chap stick for next time.
The Lake was really nice 2-3 ft waves with a steady breeze all day. The GPS shows a max speed of 7.6 knots while we were heading to weather! We were having quite a good time sailing with the 150 genoa. At the end of the day our average speed was 5.5 knots which isn't to shabby seems we did a bit of floating around under main sail only as we tried to sort out the rigging of the spinnaker. We did finally get the light weight chute up. However that was after we dropped it into the lake and tried to use it as a fishing net. Mental note if their is wind out on the lake it takes more than two people to handle the spinnaker. We managed to sail about halfway to Holland when we decided it was a good idea to peel the spinnaker back down and head back to the south. After all we weren't interested in beating ourselves up to much and the wind was coming from the southwest. A few short tacks and we were back in front of the Kalamazoo River. From there on out we just zig zagged around a bit. We sailed up the river as two other boats were sailing out. Then we headed back in to the marina to take a quick dip in the pool before grabbing a hot dog and heading home.
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