Tag: spinnaker

A weekend of Go Go Go!

by Weather Witch2023 Sailing season, SV WeatherWitch October 2, 2023October 3, 2023No Comments

This weekend we’ve been enjoying WeatherWitch’s happy place. She loves flat seas and a good F4 on the beam (or broad reach with the asymmetric spinnaker), which was exactly what we had for the entire weekend. Saturday we headed to Lymington, managing a lot fewer tacks than we had expected. We really felt the speed …

Homeward bound…the slightly long way

by Weather Witch2023 Sailing season, SV WeatherWitch August 4, 2023September 14, 2023No Comments

Will we have enough wind? We had hoped to have a long spinnaker run all the way back across the Channel…and it looked hopeful for the first half hour or so. Unfortunately the wind direction then became unhelpful (to go with the poor visibility) and we ended up motoring most of the way. Mike felt …