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Today starts a new book in the Harris Family Sailing Journal. We are buying our new (to us) Catalina 27 today. The fella we are buying the new boat from will be heading to St. Pete on Monday the 21st to purchase the boat he is planning to buy to replace the boat he is [...]

We haven’t had any sailing time in just over a month, which is unusual for us. We typically get in at least a weekend of sailing once a month during the winter and nearly every weekend during the summer. The last two weeks of weather haven’t been favorable for our Potter. Prior to that, our [...]

Feb. 9, 2008… Went sailing for the day. Weather reports called for sunny skies and 70 degrees, but it was overcast half the day, then partly cloudy the rest and probably only made it to 65 degrees. It was still a good time sailing though. We departed the PSMC at about 9:45am CST and sailed [...]

Feb. 2, 2008… Took Knotical out for a sail this afternoon. Spent around 5 hours just sailing around Pensacola Bay. It was a good time. My son, Blake, took the helm for the last 30 minutes and sailed us to the channel where I took back over and motored us into port. We launched at [...]

January 6, 2008… First sail of the new year. It turned out to be a fairly great day for sailing. The sky started sunny, but turned overcast in the afternoon. Winds were around 10mph with calms seas. There were quite a few other sailing vessels who decided to take advantage of the day as well, [...]

December 9, 2007: Family events have kept us out of the water nearly the past month, but we were able to catch a break in the fog today and launched this afternoon from PSMC. Temp was around 75 degrees and wind about 7mph. It was a quiet, leisure sail and a good time. Despite the [...]

Oct. 13, 2007… Launched at Big Lagoon in Pensacola and headed over to Ft. McRee to camp for the night. It was my son’s first camping trip and he loved it. We could have used a bit more wind, but it was a relaxing sail. Oct. 14, 2007… Packed up camp after a great night [...]