Overnighter and out on the Open Seas

Sally's brother David and his wife on board Little Dipper II joined Sally and I and a friend from Austria for a little sailing adventure.

Little Dipper II is a fiberglass reproduction of a Herreshoff designed Petrel. This is a 21 foot overall day sailor that David has equiped with a cockpit canopy that makes overnights possible.

We sailed out of Point Judith harbor towards Block Island for a few miles. The weather was warm and sunny and the wind around 10 knots. The two boats are similar in overall length but very different in design.Skorpa is a light centerboarder with a relatively flat planing hull. Dipper is a full keeled displacement boat with several hundred pounds of outside lead ballast. We had great fun sailing together.

This is Skorpa at home on the open water.

Moritz and I are hailing Little Dipper. We need to decide on a rendezvous point and a place to swim.

Tweaking the sails for a little more speed. Having trouble losing these guys.

After the sail and a swim it was time for a little R&R.

The water is clean and cool making warming up in the sun a real pleasure.

This is in the evening after we have settled down for the night at our anchorage.