September 11, 2005 | 12.9 Nautical Miles

Sadly, the boat is coming out of the water in just a couple of days. Heather and I are planning to put our house on the market and have an agressive schedule of project to complete first, so we are unlikely to use the boat much for the rest of this season.

But with a beautiful sunny Sunday and a 15 knot breeze forecast we invited our friends Sean and Sarah out for a fall sail. Heather, Gavin, and I arrived at the club in time to see Tim heading out in his daysailor, but we needed to wait for Sean and Sarah. The wind built to a nice solid 15 with higher gusts so we tucked in a reef and had a nice beat up to Portland. Along the way we had a brief tacking duel with Gracie, hull number 660.

From Portland we had a nice broad reach back toward Clapboard. As we came abeam of the Hussey the wind seemed to funnel in and we had a screaming beam reach across to Chebeague before gybing around and heading back in. What a great last sail!