Recent content by Capt Greg

Good morning Well, the story leading up to Lenny is interesting. We bought Spitfire in April of 1999 in Ft Lauderdale. Our shake down cruise was a non- stop to New Bedford, MA, or so we thought. Lost steering in a near gale 90 miles off Atlantic City, NJ, and surfed into that harbor through the...

Thank you for your rapid response. I think I knew that already but I just didn't put it together. Anyway, here is a photo of me at the helm during one of those wind gusts.

During hurricane Lenny in 1999, I was anchored on my sailboat in a protected cove in the Virgin Islands. The winds were about 60 mph with gusts to an estimated 80 mph where we were. I observed that during the gusts, the salt water would "boil", that is, totally evaporate the surface into a cloud...