Points of Sail
If you’re new to sailing, some of the words used to describe wind can be a bit confusing at first. Hopefully, this will help. True Wind – This is just what it sounds like. True wind is the actual wind in the direction that it is coming from. Apparent Wind — This is the wind that’s apparent to you. It’s the combination of the true wind with the boat’s velocity. That results in what the wind feels like on […]
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Everyone’s a Fourth Grader
I had a lot of doubts about starting this blog. For a while, I was thinking that I didn’t know enough about racing sailboats to write about it. There were many lapses in my confidence and repeated instances of questioning my rationale. Then, I listened to the audiobook “The Barefoot Executive.” Honestly, I just happened upon the download as a special from audible.com. I wasn’t sure what I would find, but the title enticed the tropic loving sailor in me […]
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Got Bruises? — Eat Pineapple
When I started racing, most of my time was spent as rail meat — moveable human ballast that let me hang off of the side of the boat in order to help keep it upright. My enthusiasm for being out on the water lead to bruises from crossing the cabin top to stay on the high side of the boat. Of course, bruises aren’t flattering at all…and they can even lead to unusual comments from friends and co-workers. […]
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Hello World!
Hopefully, you can gather from the pictures on this page that I’m a girl and I love to race sailboats. My family bought a 20’ Matilda sloop when I was 13 years old; and I spent many summers trying to convince my parents to sail as much as possible. But, they loved to cruise and I always wanted to race. I fell out of sailing during college. However, my early thirties brought me to the Annapolis area. From a friend, […]
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