=============================================== Don's picture of a rocky, cold looking beach in Nova Scotia has inspired me to post pictures from our February cruise to Venice (FL), St Pete Beach, Isla del Sol YC, Long Boat Key, Sarasota Bay, Cabbage Key, Useppa Island and Pine Island Sound.
Included are pictures of a REAL beach (no offense intended Don).
Wayne.B wrote:> Don's picture of a rocky, cold looking beach in Nova Scotia has> inspired me to post pictures from our February cruise to Venice (FL),> St Pete Beach, Isla del Sol YC, Long Boat Key, Sarasota Bay, Cabbage> Key, Useppa Island and Pine Island Sound.>
Included are pictures of a REAL beach (no offense intended Don).>
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:54:10 -0500, DSK <dsk@dontbotherme.com> wrote:
Cool pics. The one of dolphins in the wake is the best dolphin pic I've >seen in a long time... usually by the time I snap one, they're gone.>
505 Midwinters? How'd your son do?
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The dolphins are particularly hard to catch with a digital camera because of that annoying little lag after you push the button. I just got a new Olympus D-540 which seems a bit better in that respect. Our GB49 is a virtual dolphin magnet at cruising speed for some reason. We sometimes have as many as 7 or 8, surfing the wake for miles at a time.
My son was 8th in a fifteen boat fleet, right squarely in the middle of a very competetive pack. There were several olympians, sailmakers and national class champions in the top 5, so being in the middle of a fleet like that is a decent accomplishment. They are really exciting boats to watch on a windy day. We were committee boat for the regatta and had a ringside seat for the whole thing. First day the winds were 15 to 20 kts, gusting 25. There were lot's of capsizes and screaming spinnaker reaches. The last day the winds went light and things got very closely bunched and tactical.
Wayne.B wrote:> The dolphins are particularly hard to catch with a digital camera> because of that annoying little lag after you push the button.
Tell me about it...
.... Our> GB49 is a virtual dolphin magnet at cruising speed for some reason.> We sometimes have as many as 7 or 8, surfing the wake for miles at a> time.>
We tend to get a lot of them in the bow wave. About a dozen times in the past 2 years they seem to want to jump up and tap our anchor in it's bowsprit chocks.
Your son sounds like he's doing pretty well. I never aspired to racing the 505, it's a bit too gadgetry crammed into too small a package for me. They are cool boats though. Mid fleet in a group like that is quite respectable IMHO, it shows pretty solid mastery of sailing.
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:32:32 -0500, DSK <dsk@dontbotherme.com> wrote:
Your son sounds like he's doing pretty well. I never aspired to racing >the 505, it's a bit too gadgetry crammed into too small a package for >me. They are cool boats though. Mid fleet in a group like that is quite >respectable IMHO, it shows pretty solid mastery of sailing.
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We always hoped he would grow up to enjoy sailing but he may have turned out a bit over cooked since he was elected to the ICYRA hall of fame in his junior year (on my nickel of course). He's in his second year of law school now and is supposed to be spending his time studying real hard...
===============================================>Don's picture of a rocky, cold looking beach in Nova Scotia has>inspired me to post pictures from our February cruise to Venice (FL),>St Pete Beach, Isla del Sol YC, Long Boat Key, Sarasota Bay, Cabbage>Key, Useppa Island and Pine Island Sound.
Im sailing in Spain this week, Ill try to post some pics from here, later this week.
