Sailing Adventures of the Shumakers
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Mid-summer sailing classes and Michigan sailing
While our boat has been in the boatyard in Oxford, MD this summer, I’ve still managed to get in some sailing. In late June, I taught the beginner sailing class at Lake Manawa. The Lake Manawa Sailing School is a big team effort organized by the sailing school coordinator (Ali) and quite a few people…
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Up the Bay to Campbells Boatyard in Oxford, MD
As I mentioned in the last post, we had one more major project to tackle on our refit: replacing the chainplates. The chainplates are where the standing rigging (cables that hold up the mast) attach to the boat. On any boat, there is a lifespan for chainplates. We would probably be OK keeping the existing…
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Zephyr sails again!
After a year and a half of boat projects, we finally took Zephyr out for a shakedown cruise! We were a bit nervous since we have tackled so many projects since the last time we took Zephyr out. The refit has included some very challenging times, where I wasn’t sure how we were going to…
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Summer and fall of 2024 – teaching, racing, and boat work
It’s been a while since the last post. We had a couple of good trips in the spring on friends’ boats, but there were no trips on Zephyr this year. The refit turned out to be all encompassing and is still underway. Zephyr will sail again 2025 and we are looking forward to that. I’ll…
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Bahamas to Chesapeake – May 2024
Corrie and I joined our friend Jesse Broome to help him bring his Island Packet 38 (called Contented Turtle) back north from the Bahamas. I helped him bring the boat south to Bahamas last November. Jesse’s friend Paul also joined us for the passage. They spent some time together around the Abacos in the days…
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