02 Sep 23:
We were saddened to hear that our poet-pirate jimmy Buffett had crossed the bar, but memories of his sailing spirit motivated us to head to the beach and launch a couple of our little boats. Hitting the waves today were Skipper's 1965 Alcort Sunfish WAVE, sporting her Jolly Roger colors and our Pelican Icon kayak as the photo ship/target.
Skipper has her groove back, trying to run me over like she used to do. I hid behind some poles to fend off her attack.
Video: https://youtu.be/OciQholaJr0?si=5Rd3WTxF3TWlQGS6
I turned a trick on WAVE after Skipper was done.
Video: https://youtu.be/cvhL8C57Vys?si=ubtXNacwZ5QAT0m9
Ships of the Ghost Fleet up river on the James.
Cold fried chicken to celebrate.
Sail ties come in handy on a breezy beach.
We add a snap shackle to the main sheet bowline, for one reason is to have a quick way of securing the rolled sail when the boat is in beach mode. Under sail the shackle attaches to a block that runs along the line bridle. Capn Jack came up with this quick way to rig and downrig, a little different than the standard wire bridle and bowline tied on the end of the sheet. I don't think he liked the idea of line rubbing on coated wire. And when the wire bridles rusted, which they do, he cut those off and switch the bridle over to a nice piece of line.
Here's to you Jimmy.
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