Hotter than hot

The past couple weeks have been very hot and humid. Temperatures in the high 90s and humidity in the 80s and 90s. The winds have been slow, except last Saturday the 17th. We were healed over 30 degrees and cruising over 6 knots. This is the type of day we all love and yern for. The unfortunite thing was we did not have a lot of time for sailing this particular day as we had some more fiberglass work to do to the dinghy. In fact, I went back on monday to give things an additional coat of glass. Hopefully this coming weekend I will experience no leaks.

Update

This past weekend we went out and had a slow day as far as wind was concerned. It seems to be the weather is better for sailing in the fall than in the summer. We have made so many trips this year where we have resorted to motor power. Yesterday, was much different. I could not even raise a reefed main sail and sailed with only the genoa and was able to maintain 4.6mph. The mainsail was just an invitation for a knock down. It was myself and an older gentleman, so I would not take any chances of a knock down. As we motored out of the mooring field we headed directly into the wind. The waves were breaking over the front of the boat as we tried to get out of the harbor. We would point the bow into the air as riding up a wave and slam down when the bow came down. There was no choice but to keep this heading as we were in the channel that runs directly through the mooring field. At this point I had wonders as to there being a small craft warning out and when I grabbed my handheld VHF I found it was in the on position and the batteries were dead. No way to check NOAA for a warning! As soon as we got past the other moored vessels we took a course to go diagonally to the wind which made the ride a little more manageable. Then in about 2 to 3 hours, the chop disappeared and the wind died to almost nothing. It was a very hot day, hovering around 100 degrees. That goodness for bimini tops!