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• Have you ever loved an anchorage that you know you should hate?
  • make sure you keep your dink locked up by the bridge there
    • Brought along a padlock and cable for just that spot
  • You'll forget about WP till....
    • I still remember sailing back to Lake Worth one weekend afternoon
  • I get that. I love it all(nearly). The crowds, the isolation.
    • Edgartown can be like that. A short dinghy ride across...
  • With an attitude like that
  • It's all the excitement of a new journey about to begin.
  • Lauderdale's Lake Sylvia, and Miami Beach are like that for me...
    • When staging for the Bahamas, it's tough to beat the convenience of Miami Beach...
      • Miami Beach
    • In defense of the Abacos
      • Makes perfect sense to me
    • Jon: Please tell us about your head sail configuration. Thanks.
      • Pretty conventional cutter arrangement...
        • Jon: Storm Jib Set Up?
          • I have a Gale Sail from ATN...
            • Gale Sail vs. Storm Jib
              • Just had this discussion with a sailmaker...
                • Do you set the staysail after furling the jib and...
                  • That's the idea...
                  • You bag it (roll, if you can) from downwind, then take the hanks off?
        • Jon, I believe I see your retreival
          • Sorry, I'm not sure exactly what you mean, there...
            • Yes, that's what I thought. The
        • Photo of Passage similarly back in the day.
        • Isn't your boat a sloop in design? So not quite technically a cutter?
          • I believe that Jon only rigs the staysail as a storm jib and rarely uses both the forsail and staysail at the same time.
            • That's what I'd expect. On my old boat..back in the day..staysail was for double reefed and very high winds.
  • Lake Worth