Goodnight, it's been a hell of a day

"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
07/09/2019 at 23:04 • Filed to: None

We took the tandem island boat out, went from Sausalito to Tiburon and ate at Sam’s, you can dock your boat there. It was easy early on but getting back was tough, I am beat. It took all my sailing skills to get home, the currents and wind in Raccoon Strai t was a bitch.

My dog Sylvie watching a grandma get into a maroon 996

My neighbor got this massive Cummins powered Nissan

DISCUSSION (20)

CB > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
07/09/2019 at 23:17

Loads of tacking?

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > CB
07/09/2019 at 23:36

Yeah, the current pushed us towards Belvedere and the wind was not in a direction that let me head down to where we were going. I’d lose ground. We have pedal drives in it so at one point I furled the said and we peddled in a direction the boat could not have gone sailing. It was all working against us, much swearing.

CB > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
07/09/2019 at 23:38

Glad to hear you made it home, at least. Tacking was my least favourite part of sailing.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > CB
07/09/2019 at 23:39

Well tacking and jibing are fine in pleasant conditions!

CB > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
07/09/2019 at 23:44

Not on a 40 foot boat in a small channel!

TheRealBicycleBuck > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
07/10/2019 at 00:06

I sailed a tandem island for about an hour with my son on board. Much want.

someassemblyrequired > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
07/10/2019 at 00:15

Sailing FJs taught me one thing: a boat needs a big ass motor to be fun. Otherwise it’s just a PITA.

Aremmes > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
07/10/2019 at 00:25

That looks like fun, but yeah, to sail close to the wind you need a head sail.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > someassemblyrequired
07/10/2019 at 00:40

I did sailing camo for years, FJs always cut me or hurt me, I liked lasers.

JustAnotherG6 > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
07/10/2019 at 09:40

How about some more details on the boat?
I’ve only been sailing in the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior with at least 2 others on board to help with tacking and so forth. I’d love a chance to sail the Bay.

CaptDale - is secretly British > someassemblyrequired
07/10/2019 at 12:23

Wrong! Sailing FJs was a blast!

CaptDale - is secretly British > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
07/10/2019 at 12:24

Sounds like a bit of a rough sail, but at least you made it back..

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > JustAnotherG6
07/10/2019 at 12:35

It’s a 2019 Hobie Mirage Tandem Island. The Mirage is the flipper peddle system, so you don’t need paddles, the middle hull is a kayak, you can you it alone as a normal tandem kayak. But you can add the outriggers and sail and it becomes a quick little sailboat. I grew up sailing normal boats, we kayak mostly, but we rented one of these at Tahoe and I sold my other kayak immediately. The Mirage drive is just so smooth and efficient, I never would have guessed. The Bay is very tricky, the whole tide system goes in and out of the Go lden Gate and Angel Island is smack in the middle splitting it all up, plus bays off to the side. SO with wind and currents always changing a simple morning can make a very difficult afternoon. You really only want to go in certain directions on a slack and even then it may not be totally slack. We could have gotten to somewhere in an emergency but I wanted to get it back where I keep the boat. I also saw a small Coast Guard boat moving down Belvedere where the wind and current was driving everyone , they probably knew exactly what was going on.

someassemblyrequired > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
07/10/2019 at 18:46

FJs always cut me or hurt me

*checks out*

someassemblyrequired > CaptDale - is secretly British
07/10/2019 at 18:51

I was trying to learn to impress a girl I liked in high school - for that application 0/10 do not recommend. Turns out she was really really good, and I wasn’t. At all. Which that boat helped me demonstrate on many occasions.

CaptDale - is secretly British > someassemblyrequired
07/10/2019 at 19:01

What an interesting reason to learn to sail. FJs are fairly easy to sail once you get a handle on them. I grew up sailing and racing as a kid, so I love it and FJ are what we raced in HS and college.

someassemblyrequired > CaptDale - is secretly British
07/10/2019 at 19:28

Ha yes, I mean it was a moderately successful plan , but a few lessons weren’t going to even the playing field , I’ll put it that way.

I would say that the few times I’ve sailed big keelboats I found it really straightforward. It’s surprisingly easy to transition from dinghy to even a large sailboat.

CaptDale - is secretly British > someassemblyrequired
07/10/2019 at 19:36

Yeah bigger the boat the more space you have making it a little easier to handle . But all the controls and stuff are basically the same.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > someassemblyrequired
07/10/2019 at 20:19

I started on El Toros, FJs, Lasers and then Rhodes 19s. My uncle was in the Americas Cup crews and has done the Trans Pac eleven times I think. My cousin went into Laser racing pretty seriously but I mainy surfed when I wasn’t at the summer sailing day camp, we had that for a few weeks every summer for maybe seven years.

someassemblyrequired > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
07/10/2019 at 23:31

Yeah I think starting early is kind of the key to get to the really high levels of the sport, and then you have to have the finances to compete there too.

I would say it felt amazing and you got quite sense of speed when you got things dialed in right. I think the fact you are so close to the surface plus the spray makes the speed seem way faster than it is in reality.

But then you botch a gybe and you’re like that Christopher Cross jerk is full of it as you apologize profusely to the other person you just tossed out of the boat .