Let's go sailing

pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
edited June 4, 2008 in Journeys
Yay! I've got a journey to post :D

I was on a weekend's spot of sailing on a nice 33-foot Elan. You know the usual bermuda rigged job built for bobbing up and down coastal waters.

'Twas fun, got a sunburn, did sails, tiller (or wheel actually), navigation, photography, sauna... :lol3

Meet the crew:
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That's Miika on the left with his hand on the winch, Anne sitting on the railing, Tapio at the wheel and our skipper Aki seems checking out the scenery. We're approaching our night stop at Gåsgrundet on the engine here, in an almost total lack of wind.

View forward looked like this:
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You can see the pier we tied on to. It's usually used by a connection boat, but it hadn't started yet so we could use it safely with our 6-foot keel and all.

And here's our trusty 5-ton tub of fiberglass safely anchored:
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Gåsgrundet was a lovely place. There were violets by the thousand. Birds everywhere, a swallow had a nest under the pier we were docked at, happily sang his song at pier. :lust

Taking in the scenery in sepia:
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Magic hour violets:
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Here's my favorite moment of the cruise, a spur of the moment portrait shoot with the lovely Anne. :D

Anne and the Violets:
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Our sunset looked like this:

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Here's a couple more from the trip, another one of Anne on the boat:
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I took this one back at the home dock,
Paint the picture
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I tried a new PP-technique with that one. It's selective color obviously, but I also set the sepia to leak some of the original color. Do you like it or hate it?

That's it, full gallery here, with a bunch of shots taken by Anne and Aki as well.

Thanks for looking, tell me what you think! :thumb
Creativity's hard.

http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/

Comments

  • CuongCuong Registered Users Posts: 1,510 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2008
    Beautiful images.

    Cuong
    "She Was a Little Taste of Heaven – And a One-Way Ticket to Hell!" - Max Phillips
  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2008
    Cuong wrote:
    Beautiful images.

    Cuong

    Thank you!
    Creativity's hard.

    http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2008
    I love them all...even the last one with the paint brush thumb.gif
    Mary
    www.Dogdotsphotography.com
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,948 moderator
    edited May 31, 2008
    I love sailing. In fact, I stopped in Santa Cruz today to watch the fleet beat
    then turn and run. It's pretty windy on the coast so this was a lot of fun to
    watch the crews gybe :D
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  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited May 31, 2008
    Santa Cruz thumb.gif Love that town.
    Mary
    www.Dogdotsphotography.com
  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited May 31, 2008
    Dogdots wrote:
    I love them all...even the last one with the paint brush thumb.gif

    Counting one positive for the faded PP, thank you :D
    Creativity's hard.

    http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited May 31, 2008
    ian408 wrote:
    I love sailing. In fact, I stopped in Santa Cruz today to watch the fleet beat
    then turn and run. It's pretty windy on the coast so this was a lot of fun to
    watch the crews gybe :D

    What kinda rusty buckets are we talking about? mwink.gif

    Dinghies, Tall ships (Should really try a short leg on one those :D ), 100-footers?
    Creativity's hard.

    http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,948 moderator
    edited May 31, 2008
    pyry wrote:
    What kinda rusty buckets are we talking about? mwink.gif

    Dinghies, Tall ships (Should really try a short leg on one those :D ), 100-footers?

    Nah. They look like something in the 40' range. Nothing like Merlin :D
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  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2008
    ian408 wrote:
    Nah. They look like something in the 40' range. Nothing like Merlin :D

    So not all that different from our boat then. Except that in a race we'd have seen them exactly twice lol3.gif

    I like dinghies, my club has a snipe I'm itching to get out with again :D
    Creativity's hard.

    http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,948 moderator
    edited June 3, 2008
    pyry wrote:
    I like dinghies, my club has a snipe I'm itching to get out with again :D
    You learn a lot in a small boat. Especially if you don't like getting wet :D
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  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited June 4, 2008
    ian408 wrote:
    You learn a lot in a small boat. Especially if you don't like getting wet :D

    I know lol3.gif

    I started in the Optimist and tried the Europe. Then there was a few years I didn't sail at all before I got into the Snipe, I still remembered very clearly where the panic button is - and still had the reflex to push it :D

    An arm's length of sheet line will keep you dry thumb.gif
    Creativity's hard.

    http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
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