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Hi All,

 

Drew OBrien is taking Surprise home to Maine. So Drew and Bernie and I sailed her to Block Island last week. We had a great sail. About 24 hours under spinnaker. Bernie gets credit for the picture. What fun we had!

Aloha,

Kate

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What kind of speed were you able to make under spinnaker?

At 08:39 PM 7/17/2002 -0400, Kate Christensen wrote:

Hi All,   Drew O’Brien is taking Surprise home to Maine. So Drew and Bernie and I sailed her to Block Island last week. We had a great sail. About 24 hours under spinnaker. Bernie gets credit for the picture. What fun we had!

-- Jim Foster - jif "at" computer .org      http://www.voicenet. com/~jfoster "Being on a Beemer and not having a wave returned by a         ICQ 679709          Sportster is like having a clipper ship's hailing not    RAM 2500 Cummins returned by an orphaned New Jersey solid waste barge." -OTL '91 K100RS16V

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Aloha Jim,

 

On our trip to Block Island, the spinnaker was super because we were almost dead down wind for 24 hours. The spinnaker gave us a knot and a half more than jib alone. The wind speeds varied from 6-7 knots to 15. Top speed was 7.2 knots with wind 12-15 knots behind us. In general we cruised at 5.5 to 6.0. Without the spinnaker, the trip would have been much more tedious. We did about 5 knots with jib alone through the night.

 

A word of advise, which you have all hear before&take the spinnaker down BEFORE you want to. It gets a little harder as the wind speed increases, especially as we did not have the main to blanket it.

 

Have fun!

 

Kate

Alohakate@highstream.net

410 573-1990 Home Office

410 262-1280 Cell Phone

 

 

-----Original Message----- From: Jim Foster [mailto:jif@computer.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 9:42 PM To: bcc@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [bcc] Surprise

 

What kind of speed were you able to make under spinnaker?

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Hi All,

 

Drew OBrien is taking Surprise home to st1:statest1:placeMaine</st1:place></st1:state>.
So Drew and Bernie and I sailed her to st1:placeBlock Island</st1:place> last
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-- Jim Foster - jif "at" computer .org      http://www.voicenet. com/~jfoster "Being on a Beemer and not having a wave returned by a         ICQ 679709          Sportster is like having a clipper ship's hailing not    RAM 2500 Cummins returned by an orphaned New Jersey solid waste barge." -OTL '91 K100RS16V

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