Who's Celebrating the 4th sailing?

[Windsong]

Anyone going to celebrate the 4th sailing? Post some pics and share your day celebrating. Fair winds of Freedom to all of you on this 4th day of July. I'm glad our forefathers declared independence in the summer.
Cheers,
Lars

[openboater]

getting ready for the boat parade on our lake. it's always fun, then campfires, flares around the shore and fireworks.

The 4th is the only day all year I consider our lake 'busy', pretty quiet the rest of the year.

[PatrickXavier]

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll182/Rogue1892/Vela/db5fa4c1.jpg

[Thorne]

Not out here in anything under 30 feet, it is blowin' a gazillion knots out on the Bay.

Warnings and/or Advisories In Effect for this Point:
Small Craft Advisory (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/warnings.php?wfo=mtr&zone=PZZ530&pil=XXXMWWMTR&productType=Small+Craft+Advisory)
For warnings and/or advisories in effect for adjacent areas to this point, see http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr Forecast prepared by WFO MTR
37.803N 122.36W
0300 PM PDT Sat Jul 4 2009

DATE SAT 07/04/09 SUN 07/05/09 MON 07/06/09
UTC 3HRLY 10 13 16 19 22 01 04 07 10 13 16 19 22 01 04 07 10 13 16 19 22 01
PDT 3HRLY 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 00 03 06 09 12 15 18 21 00 03 06 09 12 15 18

WIND DIR SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW W SW SW SW W W W
WIND SPD 13 9 12 17 22 16 15 13 13 14 9 12 14 18 16 14 13 9 8 13 13 16
WIND GUST 17 11 16 22 29 21 19 16 17 17 12 15 17 23 20 17 16 11 10 17 17 20

[SchoonerRat]

Does the 5th count?
Going out to watch the big guys start the Transpac off of Pt Fermin in LA. They start at noon. By the time we get bored and quit following them the wind ought to be up for a nice sail home.....or.............!

[StevenBauer]

We had a nice sail this afternoon. Then watched the fireworks from the dock. Which was nice as Mary was on call and wouldn't have been able to get to the hospital in time if we had been on the mooring. No sailing pics but I have some pics of Talisman on the dock:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/2009%20pics/07-04-09_1914.jpg?t=1246768707

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/2009%20pics/07-04-09_1912.jpg?t=1246770541


http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/bauerdad/2009%20pics/IMG_3248.jpg?t=1246771139


Steven

[johngsandusky]

Sailed cross the Sound on the 4th, to Branford. Put the hook down in a rockbound, but well protected harbor. Enjoyed a lovely evening aboard, the moon on the water was striking. Sailed back yesterday aganist wind and tide. That made for a long day, but my ketch sails well with the helm tied off. Jane stood lookout while I had a nap. We arrived after dark, but sunset was beautiful. It was our first night together on the boat, it won't be the last.

[Ian McColgin]

That moon was lovely. I had the catapillar tent up over the cockpit so I could sleep out and watch moon-rise over the stern.

[johngsandusky]

It was, last night too. There was a great sunset in the west, with a nearly full moon behind thin clouds in the east. It was bright enough to load the dinghy by moonlight.