Daysailing in January

The morning started foggy with a cool view of s/v Peacemaker heading into the Port of Pensacola.

Here’s a picture of Peacemaker later in the day once we were out on the water.

Another picture of Peacemaker, which is a large sailing vessel, next to another much larger ship at the port.

We had the pleasure of touring Peacemaker right about a year ago and posted photos on on our blog at that time.

http://sv-monomoy.com/2011/01/crew-of-monomoy-tours-sv-peacemaker/

Carol was enjoying the relaxing sail.

The bay was fairly flat, so it was perfect for some folks to take advantage of fishing.

Pogo was on dolphin alert.

This fellow was enjoying the sun breaking through the clouds.

As we slowly sailed along in the bay, we passed a Christmas tree floating in the water. We thought about that for a moment and considered how that poor tree was just the center of happiness a few weeks ago and now it has been abandoned to the bay by some inconsiderate persons (improper way of disposal).

The wind never made it over 5 knots, but we weren’t complaining, since we enjoy relaxing sails.

Ben on the radio with Captain Ken of s/v Private Stock.

Here’s Private Stock in the distance.

The bay slowly had other sailboats appearing.

The sky cleared/clouded all day.

We passed a sister-ship on the bay..

…who tacked around and headed back toward us.

It appeared they had their own dolphin patrol dog.

They cruised up alongside and we hollered back and forth for a short time chatting about sailing. They seemed very familiar, but we weren’t sure where we had perhaps seen or met them before.

After providing our blog and email address to them, they pulled away and headed back the direction they were originally going.

We then recognized the name of their boat and realized we had met them briefly on the dock before; they also happen to be friends of our friends Tammy and Marlin of s/v Keeldover.

There were a few other boats still sailing the bay, but I think the light wind sent a few back to port.

Monomoy does well in light wind; she has a lot of canvas and would typically be a light boat, though we have her waterline raised around 4 inches due to all of the gear we carry aboard. We can still sail 5 knots in 4 knots of wind, so we were having a good time.

Pogo still on dolphin patrol.

We have a four day weekend coming up, so we are really keeping our fingers crossed for good weather, so we can get a few days of cruising in.