Bristol-Blue Lake Michigan Sailing Adventures

This week I took advantage of a few nice weather days to do a little end-of-season sail care. The Mylar Genoa had a few frays at the seams so I trimmed them back. Flacked it down nicely and it is ready to go for the Spring. My main sail was attacked by spiders this season. So I decided to give it a good cleaning. For this, I used a Davis Sail maintenance kit. However, I modified my technique. The kit calls for soaking your sail and I felt that this would lead to a wrinkly sail and mine is still good and stiff.  I laid my sail out on the lawn and used the Sail bath product from the kit mixed with the soaking directions. I brushed the product onto the sail and waited. It did a pretty decent job but I'm not sure there was much to clean off to begin with. However, the Foaming cleaner was really nice. I used it to spot-treat a few areas where spider nests had formed and it did an excellent job pulling up the stains.  After the final rinse, I grabbed all the lawn chairs and draped the sa

 

We are still here sailing Lake Michigan.  Lots of adventures. I have not posted much lately so he is a video compilation of the fore deck sails from this seasons adventures. 1958 Herter project we have been restoring this also over the last few months.   

Found a whale shadowing us under the boat today.   

This weekend we got out it was a great run.  After about a hour the fog rolled in and coming back got a lot more interesting.    

 

Season 13 sailing out of Tower Marine. Winter cover is off and we are getting started soon.