First Solo Sail

February 17th was our first solo sail - solo meaning the two of us, sans Antares coaches. 

Wind was light, 5-10 knots and, therefore, easy-going.  We sailed out and back without incident, changing headsails once and gybing at the turn around.  We hand-steered the entire trip as our autopilot was without power.  No problems at all!

Peter aced the docking.  This is no small feat.  The dock is an intimidating cement number with a huge, ancient rusty iron block at the end of it - quite interesting when it isn’t in the way of Milly’s stern. 

The meter long block with unforgiving cement deci

The “dock” ends as a muddy ramp up to land - we don’t want to go that way.  The other side is another cement but lower dock with a dinghy tied on “our side”.  The wind was negligible but was blowing us off the big dock and onto the smaller dock.  All went extremely well.  I scrambled around tying lines.

A good day!

Everything put away tidily and a celebratory beer was had!  Feels great!