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Compass Rose was in Oriental, just down the creek from Southern Cross. She was tied in the middle of the 80′ wide canal with plenty of line to let her rise with the storm surge. Although less protected from wind than Southern Cross, she did just fine.
Pictures on our blog http://ketchCompassRose.com
A big thanks to Don and D of Southern Cross for letting us move our gear into their spare bedroom before the apartment we rented for the summer flooded.
Eric and Jackie White
Hi guys,
On the Chesapeake you might talk to CRAB. They are into accessible boating.
They might already be serving veterans, and they can probably give advice on making accomodations for various disabilities
Eric and Jackie
Compass Rose
anchored Marigot Bay, St. LuciaOur house is now rented and we moved aboard last Sunday. We had so much stuff piled in the boat that we thought we would have to skip the GOB regatta. It took a great effort but we got Little Rosie shipshape enough to sail by noon on Saturday. Too late to make the race on Saturday, but not too late to make the post-race party. (grin).
A friend and I had a brisk sail up under jib and jigger. (First time we tested the new mizzen sail that I made from a SailRite kit) All the way up I bemoaned our fate that we were missing the chance to race in perfect D41 weather. We got to the party site on Mill Creek and found that they had abandoned the race – too windy, they said.
Sunday was the opposite – no wind. The race committee postponed the starts and the skippers bobbed around. Some had water cannons to soak anyone who came in range. The 3 boat Tarten 37 fleet rafted up and made Painkillers.
As time wore on boats began to drop out.
Finally a little before one the wind began to slowly build. A few of us voted to race by putting up sails. Heck, if Compass Rose could move there must be enough wind for those little skinny boats.
The race committee set up a 4 leg windward-leeward course across the Bay and back. The boats that remained did well to windward across the Bay, but everyone except the spinnaker fleets struggled on the downwind leg. A lot of boats abandoned the race. The wind stayed slow and flukey and the race committee shortened the course to three legs. Even so, the later fleets struggled to make the last upwind leg.
Compass Rose was in the second to last fleet off and the last boat to finish. Only two of the seven boats in our fleet even started the race, so despite being last, we will go down as finishing second in what turned out to be a race of perseverence.
Eric and Jackie
D41 Compass Rose