Sailing Neverland, a Westsail 32, on Lake Superior. No talk, no drama, just sailing...
Sept 22, 2023
Enjoy a gentle ride on the mighty Neverland lifting and surging on the swell of the inland sea...
filmed on the last leg of a summer solo circumnavigation of Lake Superior.
Wing on wing at near hull speed most of the day (6.5 - 9kts).
ENE wind 15-25 kts with patchy fog. Never saw land until a couple miles of Duluth.
That's a 9' Dyer Dhow playing in the surf behind Neverland. Always entertaining to watch. She did quite well, even weighed down carrying her sailing rig & oars, but may have been better off stowed upside down on the cabin top. Fortunately she survived getting pooped by a couple of cresting and breaking waves.
An extended edit here... • Sailing a Westsail 32 ...
Пікірлер: 32
What??No loud music…no bikini clad supermodel KZread couple??? Just a beautiful W32 and the sounds of graceful power under sail. Thank you for the ride. Beautiful!
Hello from Juneau Alaska, where we do a lot of sailing in the mountain fjords. Beautiful downwind sail for you with a preventer on the mainsail and whisker pole on the headsail! Looks like you were moving along at 7 to 8 kn. Well done.
Beautiful and peaceful. Thank you.
Amazing
Beautiful!
Excellent downwind sailing! Tracking like a beast. Great camera angles. WS32 at her best.
Nothing better then sailing within the Great Lakes,steady breeze and a taste of white caps- let the boat walk…
@sharonbraselton3135
22 күн бұрын
Watch out big dtirm sunk big Fri g hter
Beautiful!! We love our full-keel, heavy displacement boat and wouldn't have it any other way!!
@sharonbraselton3135
22 күн бұрын
Wrong. Fast hulls beter
beautiful 😍🌊⚓⛵🙏🏼
Beautiful.
Those boats are awesome! I want a 28
Belle unité. Que du plaisir ⛵👍😉
nice boat mate
Beautiful! ..10 knots more and the dingy ride would get exciting! 🙂
@sharonbraselton3135
22 күн бұрын
Get a maggorgore powrr sail. Or. Tattoo sail boat planing huss sails 18 moh 16 6 knots sailing doeed
@sharonbraselton3135
22 күн бұрын
Or bjy a powrr boat
That 'Westsnail' is hauling ass
Wet Snail 32
Where is this? I grew up on Lake Superior. Way back in the day, maybe in the late 1970's or early 1980's, a family friend built out a Westsail 32. I was around a lot during the build, and on a couple of short day sails.
You first. How many knots 4?
Albin57
Nice what’s it blowin 20 ish?
@sharonbraselton3135
22 күн бұрын
Yes or faster wind geratir spinning making windcpowrr charge bateries up
Si è perso non sa dove va
I have a question: how much of the time is lake Superior windy and stormy, and how much of the time is it a placid lake? All the pictures I see of sites on the shore show a windless expanse of water with no waves.
@ridesthewind7551
10 күн бұрын
It has typical temperate zone weather with conditions changing daily. Any given week during the summer can have a day or 2 with strong winds (18-30 kts), a day or so with light & variable winds and the rest something in between. Frequent thunder storms in summer. The mix of cold and warm air in spring and fall will produce stronger storms with waves reaching 20 ft or more and winds of 40-50 kts. It's a big lake. Cold and deep.
@indrekkpringi
10 күн бұрын
@@ridesthewind7551 There are so many stories of ships lost due to huge storms; but all the pictures of Superior I see are those of a windless placid lake. Even in your video it is fairly calm. I'd like to for once see a video of Superior in a real storm.
@ridesthewind7551
10 күн бұрын
@@indrekkpringi Keep in mind that waves always seem to look disappointingly smaller in pictures. While this video was not from a particularly big day, there was a nice 4-6 ft high, long period, ocean-like swell, enough to get a 20,000 lb Westsail 32 surfing. While Lake Superior can produce a pleasant long duration ocean-like swell, it also produces some unique conditions when the winds blow long enough over some of it's longer fetches. The cold and deep fresh water can create a challenging combination of short duration and alarmingly steep faced breaking waves that, when first encountered, will snap to attention any experienced ocean sailor. While I don't purposefully go out in storms, I don't shy away from sailing in strong winds from a favorable direction. After nearly 70 yrs of sailing, both here and on the eastern seaboard, I've been caught in enough storms to know better than to purposefully tempt fate. Lake Superior deservedly demands respect from those who sail the inland sea. I'm sure you can find what you're looking for with a simple internet search.
@indrekkpringi
10 күн бұрын
@@ridesthewind7551 I understand. The problem with my perception of lake Superior is that I am always comparing it to weather and waves in the oceans.