Another Sailing Season Begins

It takes a lot of work to have fun, right?

In April, long before actual sailing season, Kent spent days & days enjoying a myriad of jobs including cleaning & rebuilding winch gears, changing transmission oil, waxing the hull & painting the bottom. 

As a result Cool Heads Prevail was looking quite beautiful when she splashed into the water in St. Joseph, MI in late May. 

Of course then we spent several more days bending on sails, cleaning, organizing, provisioning, etc. 

The first day of June found us sailing 52 nm across Lake Michigan with friends C&C. Now we’re really having fun! Our genoa & main led the way, followed later by the always charming gennaker along with the motor when the wind went to sleep. And a mere 11.5 hours later we manuevered into our slip in Chicago’s Burnham Harbor. 

So after some hard work we're off to a satisfying start. Within the past few days we’ve enjoyed 4 sails: a sweet morning sail followed by a delightful afternoon with O on board (oops & a fishing pole that went swimming!), and a pair of exciting day sails with winds gusting into the high 20s (yikes!). Always an adventure, always a lot of fun!