s/v Monomoy's blog

It was a windy day, but we were sailing! Ben’s bro-in-law Scot was aboard… As was Ben’s sis Laura, albeit bundled up… Ben was in conversation… Though the seas don’t appear it, the wind was steady at 15knots with gusts to 23 knots, so we furled the jib. The seas were choppy… Overall though, no [...]

Technically Blake and Ben sailed Friday afternoon on The Force.  The wind was perfect and dolphins even came up near the boat to say hello; it was really cool, but we didn’t have a camera with us. Saturday we finally got Monomoy out of her slip.  The wind started out very lite, but it was [...]

Feb. 6, 2010… While waiting on the weather to improve for sailing, we went out for a boat ride on our friend’s 42′ Silverton . Since there were virtually no other boats on the water, the Coasties didn’t have much else to do, so they boarded us.  I took the helm, while Jon (boat owner) was [...]