sailboat. that's sail, with an S. not fail with an F.

[rmd]

it's the last sunday in october. this is a time of year when it's not unheard of for there to be snow on the ground. instead, today was lovely, sunny, with temperatures up in the 60's.

perfect day for a sail around boston harbor.

and we even made it thru the hull gut without benefit of a motor.

Comments

[sensesurfer.livejournal.com]

ooooo where did you score a boat?

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i was crewing for a friend of mine with a membership at boston harbor sailing club (http://www.bostonharborsailing.com/) this season.

[frotz.livejournal.com]

More specifically, the guy who runs BHSC has a single orphan Sonar in his daysailing fleet that hasn't gotten much love lately, so he said "it's a boat! it should be sailed!", and offered a really, really nice price for a 2008 membership to sail just that one boat, and I said "sure!" The club folds up shop at the end of October, and I was actually planning on sailing come hell or high water, but it ended up being a really utterly lovely day to be out anyway.

I'm a bit shy of going too far with neither lights nor motor (the Mass Bay breeze is quite reliable about crapping out in the late afternoon), and we had a bad period quite a way out on the backside of Peddocks Island when things didn't look good at all, but a quite nice breeze filled in again from the west and we easily finished the somewhat ambitious loop before sunset even though we didn't really get rolling until noon.

[catness.livejournal.com]

That is awesome, the deal on the Sonar. I miss BHSC a lot.

[frotz.livejournal.com]

Now he's pushing 2009 Sonar plus B-fleet Soling access for $300. (Price good through the end of October; price unknown but presumably higher after that.) (Link to the various offers is over here (http://bostonharborsailing.com/bhspecials.html).) It's not peanuts, but compared to any other way I know of to get onto saltwater under my own authority, it's a rockin' deal.

[muffyjo]

That sounds absolutely joyous and peaceful somehow at the same time. Nicely done!

[sensesurfer.livejournal.com]

Nice..... assuming i end up getting the house in Winthrop... I may try and get a collective together to buy and share a sailboat.

[cz_unit]

Boat of WIN!

CZ

[catness.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I've only managed the Hull Gut without motor once, and that was on such a windy day we tacked something like 40 times. It was "ugh" at the time but it makes a good story later. :)

Yay sailing!!!!