Spinnakers

... women and children were housed, is a fairly bleak sight. It's no wonder the city is known for its yachts and spinnakers. The day we visited, locals and visitors were on the water enjoying the mild weather. We really enjoyed the Royal Hobart Yacht ...

... 't know where to put us, to start with they said we could either go race with the big boys, or join the cruisers with no spinnakers. Neither of these options were any good, the big boys courses were HUGE and would take us up to 10+ hours to complete, but ...

... ball of fierce storm wind decides perversely to run downhill carrying a bucket of torrential rain. The shelters become spinnakers, and explode. Everything soaks. Sand and mud, frenzied gathering and recovering. There are no roads. None. Communication ...

... huge windows overlooking the beach and the sea so the view when you're on the treadmill is of loads of sailing boats with their spinnakers up - the best gym view i've ever seen! We then moved round to the ab area and watched sun set over the marina while ...

... come around the North point of Dent Island we are surrounded by a mass of yachts. They are all coming directly at us and putting spinnakers up, the multi-coloured sails and number of them (about 240) is awesome. We try and find a place to get out of ...

... planes coming and going. It is a hive of activity, fascinating to sit and watch. Whilst hear we would recommend a visit to the Spinnakers brewery and restaurant, the beer here is very good, probably because they import the hops from the UK! It is set in ...

... it was supposed to be and ate every crumb. On the way back I stopped off at Summerside again and took a look around Spinnakers Landing - there for the tourists but nice nonetheless. Today I'm heading to Montreal to begin my tour of French Canada and ...

... were still learning to cope with the new speed. We were soon sailing near this fleet as they came down on us flying their spinnakers. Margaret went below to get the camera as she wanted a picture of all the beautiful coloured sails. When she found it and ...

... conditions departing Valley Trunk Bay (use Google Earth "Fly to" to find 18 26'17"N 064 26'38"W) to fly one of our symmetrical spinnakers all the way down the Sir Francis Drake Channel to the west end of Tortola – a distance of about 15 nm.  We ...

... we celebrated by having dinner at the Fireside Grill, the scene of our wedding reception, and staying a night at the beautiful Spinnakers Pub Guesthouse overlooking the inner harbour.  The sun was shining and it was a gorgeous day to watch the float ...

... nbsp; We also rigged the Code 0 as we expected to have conditions to use it.  We chose not to use a spinnaker as cruising spinnakers are slow to rig and douse and the wind forecast was for too much wind anyway.  In fact, we declared Pas de Deux ...

... as the morning progressed, so we waited.  By 0900 winds were still light so we gambled and put up one of our big spinnakers which excel downwind in light winds.  This got us moving better and by mid afternoon we were finally having that terrific ...

... for all and then we met at the Tipsy Seagull bar in the marina to get tipsy and then went to dinner at a place called Spinnakers. Sunday, Feb. 27 - We woke up to a beautiful sunny morning and took the dingy to shore at 7 a.m.. We found the local bakery ...