Big waves and little wind. Jan 25th, 2104

Fun waves. Storm surge brought swells of 6' plus. Traveled approx 10 Nmiles in light winds. Out a little over 4 hours.
Big waves coming into the mouth of the harbor today. My little 2hp Honda had trouble powering over them. I also caught a little seaweed on the prop that caused me some excitement. Right in the middle between the breakwaters, big waves and reduced power lol. Always happens at the worst times! This video is from a distance after I had motored out a safe distance. You can still see the harbor police playing in the surf with their boat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uxBil1nqyU

No wind.....

Hooked up the boat, Sunday. Took it down to Oceanside. There was no wind at all. I hung around a couple of hours chatting with other boat people and generally enjoying the time at the ramp. Still no wind, so headed back home. A perfect day at the beach!

1st sail of new year. Jan 5th, 2014

Good sail out of Oceanside. Weather man called for 5mph winds and one foot seas. Well, he was wrong. Ended up with good wind and fun swells.
Top speed of 6.2 knots. Ave speed of 3.4 knots. 14 Nmiles. Out for a little over four hours.

Two fun videos of the sail. One is going down wind with a following sea. Good practice for me. I ended up just securing the jib in neutral, rather than trying for wing on wing. With the following sea, the jib was being bounced from side to side and was annoying me. No apparent loss in speed once I went with just Mizzen and main.
The second video is of the fun waves as I beat back up wind to the marina. No ballast, so the boat was just bouncing and crashing through the waves. A fun part of the sail. As always, the waves look smaller on the video :)

Down wind with following sea video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JvWOsg1xU

Bumpy sea video. You can see I am feathering into the wind to keep the speed around 4.5/5knots. I also noticed on the video that I have the foot of the sail to tight. Result being it pulled my second string of perele beads loose from the mast. No danger of losing them as I had beads on both side of the sail to keep the string secure. I learned that after losing one of my first strands in a good chop out of Chula Vista last year!

Bumpy sea video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZVIkGiUPPw