Reflections
I've taken some time off from writing as you may or may not have noticed. The photo above is yours truly as captured by photo sensation Sarah S. who was featured as a contestant on the Tall Ship Photo Contest last fall. The photo was taken on one of our last sailing...
Sailing Last Weekend On Lake Pepin
Miguel and Maria joined us on our sailboat last weekend, what a hoot! Maria shot this video on her phone and was kind enough to share it with us. Thanks Maria. The winds were blowing from 12 to 19 knots and we had a great time. Was some of the best sailing of the...
1976 Islander 28 – An Owners Review
LOA 27'11" LWL 23'1" Beam 9'10.5" Draft 5'0" Displacement 7000 lbs Ballast 3000 lbs Vertical Clearance 41'0" Ballast/D 43 D/L 255 Fuel 20 gal. Water 24 gal. Designer Robert H. Perry Our 1976 Islander 28 is our fourth sailboat which we have now owned and sailed....
Lake Pepin Sailing, Always Interesting
Photos from last weekend on Lake Pepin. We had some interesting sailing with the squall that came over the hills in the first photograph. I snapped the photo in between reefing the genoa and the main just before this came roaring over us. What a hoot! We were not...
The Storm – A True Story
Tonight the rain came, so did the wind and the lightning and the waves. Mayday, mayday, mayday, my wife, Honey Bunny yelled into the VHF, at least that is what she felt like yelling into the two-way radio. The winds howled and the waves crashed, our little boat tossed...
Vacation On a Sailboat
We are back from our wonderful vacation on Lake Pepin where we had a fantastic time sailing our Islander 28, Aurion. It was the best weather of the season too, not counting a couple of boisterous thunder storms which reeked havoc in other areas of Minnesota. We had...
July 4th Vacation On Lake Pepin
Well, we are off for a week-long vacation aboard our Islander 28, Aurion. Yeah! We also have a week of beautiful weather to look forward to as well. Here are a couple of pictures from the previous weekends on the lake. Look for more updates later. I hope everyone has...
Island Packet 350 Sailing on Lake Pepin.
I found this video on the Northern Lights Sailing Club's Facebook page. Very nice video showing an Island Packet 350 sailing out of the Wisconsin side from Pepin Marina on beautiful Lake Pepin. The sailboat's name is Gypsy and is owned by Don and Jodi. Dang, I sure...
1980 Ta Shing Baba 40
Now here is a beauty I found on www.sailboatlistings.com today. Nice! So what got me started this time. One of our sailing friends at the marina mentioned that he had been eyeballing a Baba 35 as he felt that we had upped the bar with the purchase of our Islander 28....
Lake City Yacht Club Racing
Last Saturday found us out sailing, I know, big surprise. We set sail south towards Lake City and found ourselves near some keel boat racing. Looked to be mostly J-Boats (oh, oh, now I need a J-Boat). We stayed back out of the way, but Honey Bunny was still able to...