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Saturday Day Sail

August 29, 2009… The plan was to sail just past the Portofino Towers to raft up with a couple of other sailors from the marina.  We set sail around 9am with about 5 knots of wind that occasionally dropped to nothing.  As we poked along we decided to sail West to Ft. Pickens, drop anchor, [...]

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Finally a Weekend to Sail!!!

With all of the ugly weather we’ve had recently, it has been a while since we’ve had the chance to really sail and get in an overnighter. Finally this weekend we headed out and sailed to Ft. McRee. We towed “The Force” with us for the weekend. There was a regatta happening. Blake and I [...]

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Weekend at the Marina

We dropped Blake’s boat “The Force” into the water on Thursday evening the 13th.  We had hoped for a nice sailing weekend, so we could sail with ‘Private Stock Too’ over to Pirates Cove, but it wasn’t meant to be.  We headed out Friday and made about an hour of headway when the weather discouraged [...]

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Short Sail

August 1, 2009… Not much to post for this trip.  We headed out about 10am and returned by 11am to grill hotdogs and sip beer at the dock.  The weather quickly turned bad with thunderstorms cruising in.  We here lots of boats were caught out on the bay during the squall and it wasn’t fun. [...]

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‘The Force’

We have a new sailing addition to the family.  If you’ve been keeping up with our blog, you will recall that on July 4 we sailed past the Jr Sailing Olympics happening on Pensacola Bay.  At that time, Blake (my son) recognized that the kids sailing were about his own age and he then asked [...]

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