Ying and Yang winds this weekend

On Saturday I went sailing with a couple friends.

Once again, everything about the weather was great except the wind. Wind speeds were forecast to be “10-15 knots growing to 15-20 knots later in the afternoon”….NOT.

For most of the sail the winds were in the 3 – 6 knots range.

Not much wind to keep the sails full

We called it a day a bit earlier than we would have had there been some wind.

On Sunday I went sailing with my brother.

Winds were much better and we had a great day sailing.

I brought my new ‘Kite Cam” bracket and was able to get the kite cam to stay aloft for several minutes before there was a lull in the wind that caused the kite cam to take a nose dive into the lake.

Kite Cam Up

Unfortunately, the angle of the bracket was such that most of the video taken was of the water behind the boat. I was able to salvage several frame grabs from the video to illustrate how high the kite cam got up into the air.

Kite Cam Frame Grab

We also anchored for a short while to see how easy or hard it is to climb back onto the boat from the water. It would be ok in an emergency, but it required a bit more upper body strength than would be comfortable for most people. We have to come up with another solution before we can start swimming off the boat.

Climbing out of the water