by Eric Aaland | Apr 14, 2010 | Boat de Jour, Photos |
I took Bella out for a spin the other day. As you can see the lakes are really low this year! Hopefully we will get some rain soon. I am slowly making my way through my ever growing lists of things I need to do and/or inspect before splash day. Of course we have no...
by Eric Aaland | Apr 9, 2010 | Boat de Jour, How To, Tales of the Sail |
We set up our new sailboat, Bella, in the driveway last weekend to see how much fun it would be to raise the mast with the mast raising system built into the trailer of our new to us Precision 23. I must say it was relatively simple, but we did learn the hard way...
by Eric Aaland | Apr 7, 2010 | Boat de Jour, Photos |
So we enter a new chapter in our sailing life as we welcome a new member of the family to our home. Bella followed us home last week on Friday. We are very excited. Bella is a Precision 23 from Precision Boat Works. She adds 6 feet in length and 1.5 feet in width to...
by Eric Aaland | Apr 4, 2010 | Boat de Jour, General, Photos |
Mille Lacs is the second largest lake within the borders of Minnesota at 128,223 acres. It’s maximum depth is 42 feet with an average of 21 feet. It is 20.5 miles by 13.5 miles, which gives us plenty of room for sailing. It is also where the banner image on this...
by Eric Aaland | Mar 30, 2010 | Education, Videos |
I found this to be an informative video concerning backstay tension, which I’m just starting to learn about. Our current sailboat does not have a backstay tensioner, but I want to know as much as I can about all the different sail controls. what you know about one...
