Little Yellow and Fall in Indiana

It is officially Fall here in NE Indiana.  Lots of rain this past week, about 2+ inches, leaden skies and cooler temperatures of low 50's at night and days in the 60's.  We hauled Little Yellow last week in glorious weather and trailered her to the pad at home and applied the IN numbers for the first time.  S couple of days later she was taken to the Angola Canvas shop to be fitted with a boom tent that is c;dosed at both ends.  The tent should keep out all the rain water plus if we ever take he to a different lake to sail we could do an overnight sleep over.  Here is what LY looks like pretty much as she sits now.


LY is a nice little sailboat for a nice little lake and is a good trainer as she overpowers easily and you had better be on your toes in variable wind conditions.  She will make headway in a breeze so light that you can hardly feel it but I think the best wind is 5-10 mph.  I re-rigged her to allow boom reefing by rolling up the sail.  The jib is a little too small at 90% so tacking through can be iffy at low forward speed.  Like I said - a good trainer.

LY is now at the canvas shop getting a tent cover made, fitted and installed.  I will so enjoy not having to go down after each rain to bail her out.  I had the tent made closed at both ends so if we get caught out on some of the bigger lakes up North then we could be out of the elements for the over night stay.  The cockpit padding is such that it would be a long night for us olddies.

We are starting to think of southerly waters but still have a lot to do here in non-nautical areas: Cutting trees, splitting wood and the Fall leaves that always seem to drop about mid November or earlier.  Cheers.