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Went to work on the boat trailer and charge the batterys,Temp was 95 and humidity was 70% BUT there was a breeze!.. Went sailing! Was out until 1030PM, beautiful sunset, BUT was it hot, 85 after the sun went down. Water temp was 83!
The heat in Minnesota has coincided with a lack of wind; these aren't conditions that make my wife think of sailing in a positive light, something that's important to me in the long-range picture. Luckily, we happened to be vacationing in Maine for part of the heatwave -- it was cooler there, in the 80s, with plenty of wind, so we rented a Cape Dory Typhoon and went daysailing round the islands at the mouth of Penebscot Bay. It was our first experience with a full-keel boat, which we found charming and incredibly stable; it was blowing 15-20 mph with gusts in the middle 20s, but the Typhoon barely noticed. A delight, and it changed my thinking about what we'll eventually trade for. At any rate we're back in the midwest now and the heatwave broke last night. Friday we sail.
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