My first long daysail was in a 1977 Sunfish to a little island that’s since washed away. Here’s a recap as best I can remember.

https://sailingmoga.com/grog-island-2004/

In mid September my wife and our parents went down to Ocracoke Island for a week long vacation. We stayed in a cottage on Lighthouse Road and had access to a dock at the southern end of the harbor, so of course I brought my sailboat. It was a pretty windy week, but I did manage to get out on a long daysail. I ended up going 41.6 miles to nowhere in 8.5 hours. My average speed was 4.8 mph and I hit a new top speed of 9.2 mph!

https://sailingmoga.com/ocracoke-2021/

My wife and I are down at Atlantic Beach in North Carolina on vacation and on Saturday I went on a daysail to the Cape Lookout Lighthouse on the South Core Banks. To get there I circled Shackleford Banks which meant I had Moga out in the Atlantic for a few miles. There were tons of boaters though, more than I’ve ever seen. I went 32.7 miles in 8.5 hours with an average speed of 4 mph.

https://sailingmoga.com/cape-lookout-2021/

I’ve been messing around with making a topsail for my boat lately, and it’s finally been nice enough to go for a sail and give it a try. I went 18.3 miles to nowhere in particular, although I did get a picture of myself from a traffic camera.

https://sailingmoga.com/bridge-cam-2021/

Recently I went on a 34.3 mile daysail around the Mobjack Bay starting from the boat ramp on the Ware River. My average speed was 3.8 with a max of 6.9 mph. It was a pretty good day, although there were a few hours of rowing and drifting when the wind gave out.

https://sailingmoga.com/mobjack-bay-2021/

Earlier this week we had some nice weather so my wife and I took Moga out on the first sail of the year. It was just a short 3.5 mile cruise down the narrow Mill Creek, but it was enough to see that all of the improvements and repairs I did over the winter are working well.

https://sailingmoga.com/mill-creek-2021/

Last Friday I decided to go for a super long daysail from Windmill Point to Gloucester Point. I went 40.8 miles in just over 10 hours with an average speed of 4.1 mph and a max speed of 7.9 mph. It was a long, but uneventful day.

https://sailingmoga.com/windmill-point-to-gloucester-point-2020/

A few days ago my wife and I sailed out to the Wolf Trap light in the Chesapeake Bay. This was my second time and her first. After rounding the light we stopped at a sandbar for the afternoon where my homemade anchor was put to the test. We went exactly 23 miles in 5.25 hours for an average speed of 4.4 mph.

https://sailingmoga.com/wolf-trap-ii-2020/

A few weeks ago my wife and I took the boat out to a sand bar on the eastern end of Gwynn’s Island for a beach day. The trip was only 6 miles, but we had a great day on the sand and some excitement on the way home. It was a good test for my homemade anchor in light and flukey winds.

https://sailingmoga.com/gwynns-island-sandbar-2020/