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If I ever can accumulate the funds to get another boat (time-oldage may conspire to beat me), especially like your meridian or my Dory I am going to try a little experiment that is explained in Bill Woas book. Namely using a small staysail rig for the steering control. Will mean installing some baby...

Drat! I must have passed right by them, as I went out via East Bay, tight on the Ferry landing. I know that Gulf 'beating' pretty well, it's frustrating. Sometimes the only way around it it is to lay off on a close reach for a day and tack back as winds permit. Makes for an extended trip though. I h...

Near the end of may I took the CD-25 "Spring Gail" out on a short sea trial in the Gulf of Mexico. Weather window was favorable. The purpose was to check out the installation of a Navik windvane as well as other systems newly installed or repaired. I decided to do this solo as it would be ...