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| Out to sea dinghy cruise | 2014-05-31 | An SYC dinghy cruise out to sea that actually made it out to sea! It looked as though there would be no wind at all for quite a while but gentle F2 / F3 filled in for most of the time.
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| Shortest sail ever! | 2014-08-09 | Quite gusty winds on top of a F4. Liz didn't like it much so we came back after getting to buoy 27. Liz claims it is the early arrival of Hurricane Bertha...
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| Up river sail | 2014-08-16 | A very pleasant up river sail as far as Topsham Sailing Club. Between F2 and F4 in the estuary but died away to very little when going up the estuary. With the tide having turned, we didn't get much furtehr than TSC.
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| October beach cafe sail | 2014-10-11 | Good winds and big tides for a late season sail from SYC down to the beach cafe. Some excellent winds round the Warren and the Docks. Died away a little bit for the last mile back to SYC.
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| Motor - drift - motor | 2015-04-05 | First time back on the water in the Wayfarer for a very long time. Absolutely no wind! So stuck the outboard on the back of the Wayfarer for the first time in umpteen years and, amazingly, it worked. Motored up to buoy 20 hoping to find some wind. Didn't. Drifted for 20 minutes. Motored back. Wind started up after we put the boat away.
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| Estuary sailing in the Wayfarer | 2015-04-10 | A near enough perfect spring breeze made for an ideal morning's sailing on the Exe Estuary. Maybe 12 to 14 knots of steady south to south easterly wind made for a great morning's sailing in the Wayfarer with Liz's brother Julian. Chose the right day to take off work for once!
The average speed isn't too bad but reduced a little by having to sail back up the estuary against the tides.
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| First Wayfarer sail of 2017 | 2017-04-02 | First time out in the Wayfarer this year. A very gentle sail and then a drift back down with the tide as the wind died away as forecast.
Some noisy scroat was scaring up the birds in a hovercraft between the Clyst and the Goat Walk.
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| Second Wayfarer sail of the year | 2017-04-14 | A short sail in the Wayfarer. Sail somewhat shortened as replacing the forestay with a new one took longer than expected - the mousing line was shorter than the mast so we ended up with no stay or mousing line in the mast!
Light winds so we practiced some on water reefing.
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| Wayfarer Sail | 2019-04-07 | A quick sail round the estuary on an SYC race day to check that everything still works on the boat after a few months off the water.
Out with one reef as the the weather forecast had a F6 in it. Wind was a bit gusty but not to F6 (at least until after we came off the water).
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| First Wayfarer sail in a long, long time | 2020-06-14 | Back in the Wayfarer for for the first time this year! A free sailing day at SYC. Back and forth across the estuary for a couple of hours checking that the boat is still properly seaworthy. No breakages and a lovely steady wind.
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| First Wayfarer drift of 2021 | 2021-05-01 | Not much wind for the first outing in the Wayfarer in 2021.
Liz helmed for much of the time - yay!
Winch demo at 12:00 so we came in just as the wind was building a little.
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| Gusty Wayfarer sail | 2021-08-30 | Force 3 gusting force 4. One reef. Nice sail to nowhere in particular.
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| Wayfarer sail | 2021-11-13 | A bit curtailed as we could only really sail on one tack! The bench that the starboard genoa car was attached to pulled away from the thwart as the fibreglass had shattered around the bolt/wingnut.
So we sailied around using one sail on starboard tack and two sails on port.
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| Back in the Wayfarer | 2022-06-05 | Back in the Wayfarer after an awfully long time.
Very little wind but at least we were able to get out and check that we'd found all the right bits and the boat didn't sink.
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| First Wayfarer outing of 2024 | 2024-04-21 | A late start to this year's Wayfarer sailing but quite a good one. Mostly F4 so one reef in the main and then backwards and forwards across the estuary umpteen times to get the a feel for the boat again.
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