Early Summer Day Sail in Milwaukee
Chris and I spent the night on Intuition on Friday and Saturday morning were joined by Pawel and Pascal for a day of sailing. 
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Race to Mackinac Video
A short video cobbled together from very few clips i managed to shoot with the Canon G9 while racing the “Mac” on Intuition (S2 9.2a). We took second place in the Cruising 2 Div. Read more
Stiniva Cove
Zlahatina is in the foreground
43°1’14.17″ N 16°10’19.9″ E
This is a narrow, fjord-like, cove on the south shore of Vis Island. Near the end of the cove the cliffs don’t quite come together and through this gap is a second, hidden cove! This second cove is like a large pool with small waves lapping up on a steep, pebble shore and a couple little fishing shacks. A little, wooden row-boat is left anchored to the beach. The terrain in back of the beach runs back a bit then becomes steep and rocky with thickets of small pine trees and yucca plants.
The cliffs in the main cove pictured here plunge into the water quite a ways, making anchoring here a bit tricky. I thinks we paid out 35 meters of chain off the bow while our stern was only in a couple meters. It was necessary to take a stern line ashore and wrap it around whatever knobs of rock we could take advantage of. After lunch we rested and swam around.
Shot Across the Bow
This was shot with my underwater-camera-on-a-floatable-stick device. Comprised of a Bogen monopod mounted with an articulated head, and an empty plastic water bottle duck-taped to the upper end of the monopod shaft for extra buoyancy. Mounted on the head is a Canon G9 in a rigid waterproof housing. The camera itself is set to a custom self-timer that shoots 3 shots in rapid succession 10 seconds after the shutter button is pushed.
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Intuition takes Second Place!
When I wrote to you before, I noted a few of the things that would be different about this year’s race. To that list I can add that we finished the race – and in some style too.
After 88 hours, 33 minutes and 4 seconds of sailing, I’m happy to report that Intuition crossed the finish line as the sun was rising on Mackinac Island to take second place in her division on corrected time! Thank you for all the messages of encouragement everyone sent to us. Not only are we happy with our performance, we are delighted that the tracking system functioned properly for those of you who wanted to follow along. Read more
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