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Sailing is fun
Went out on Molly for the second time.
This time I got to take the rudder and main sheet (at least I think that's what the rope in question is called...) for a while and learnt the very basics of sailing.
The wind was very light and we got caught in the lee of Brownsea Island. Lin took the tiller while Richard and I rowed (very handy that Molly came with oars). I quite like rowing - we've taken Oswin out in hired row boats on the River Stour. We got two or three times the speed when rowing added to the sail power.
Mind you, both Richard and I row better solo. With an oar each, we don't keep good time, even with someone calling the strokes.
Here we all are as a family. Lindsey at the tiller, Richard and myself on the centre thwart and Oswin in the lifejacket.
You can see how flat the water was, hardly any waves at all.
This time I got to take the rudder and main sheet (at least I think that's what the rope in question is called...) for a while and learnt the very basics of sailing.
The wind was very light and we got caught in the lee of Brownsea Island. Lin took the tiller while Richard and I rowed (very handy that Molly came with oars). I quite like rowing - we've taken Oswin out in hired row boats on the River Stour. We got two or three times the speed when rowing added to the sail power.
Mind you, both Richard and I row better solo. With an oar each, we don't keep good time, even with someone calling the strokes.
Here we all are as a family. Lindsey at the tiller, Richard and myself on the centre thwart and Oswin in the lifejacket.
You can see how flat the water was, hardly any waves at all.
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(As distinct from the two jib sheets.)
It's definitely much faster 'under engines' when the wind dies; I sat around for about half an hour in the middle of Windermere once trying to guess whether or not we were moving by looking at the little bits of dandelion fluff drifting past (or not!) Fortunately the wind picked up along with a squall of rain -- we had to turn back just before we got to the end of the lake, though, because we wouldn't have got back to the boatyard before it shut otherwise.
It actually looks like a decent amount of wind in the photo, but if you've had more of a breeze earlier in the day it often takes the water a long time to really flatten out...