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• Photo Day- L'Hermione
  • Re: Photo Day- L'Hermione- Live webcam view
  • Impressive sight! Imagine what the original looked like coming into Castine in 1780.
  • 5 or 6 knots abaft the beam, too lazy to raise the spinnaker, what do you fly?
    • Re: 5 or 6 knots abaft the beam, too lazy to raise the spinnaker, what do you fly?
      • Surprise! "Apparent wind just forward of the beam"....
        • Trimming an asymmetric
          • Good thought. That's how I trim a symmetrical spinnaker.
    • I think your dog is smiling?
    • Our standard 150 headsail with first reef in the main
  • Re: Photo Day- PlasTiki
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      • Re: Photo Day- PlasTiki.....link to voyage
    • Makes you think about how many of those bottles we pump out, every day. Interesting idea.
      • Re: Interesting idea. Hmmm it's been my experience those bottles...
  • Lake Ontario
    • That's a great write up and photos.
      • The wind was up and down
    • Keep the prop free of lobster pot floats? But seriously, the asym on a pole?
      • That is an interesting point of disucssion
      • I just assumed you would fly an asymetrical from a pole, if the boats equipped.
  • This is oyster country
    • Wow! Great photo. I right clicked your image-scrolled down to COPY URL,
      • Re: Wow! Great photo. I right clicked your image-scrolled down to COPY URL,
        • I tried adding .jpg, and that didn't work.
      • Re: Wow! Great photo. I right clicked your image-scrolled down to COPY URL,