Fun With The Sextant - Transit of Venus

Did s/v Honey Ryder lose her electronics?  Are we becoming purists?  Gawd no!  The historic transit of Venus began this afternoon around 5'ish.  The planet Venus started its nearly seven-hour trek across the face of the sun.  Today is the last time Earthlings will see such a view until 2117.  

We decided to put our sextant to use to view it.  Plus we were too lazy to look up how to make one of those pinhole projector boxes.  Yes, I know it's super easy but we don't have kids so those types of "projects" are not super easy for us.  

 

Purge

Through the years sailing porn aka sailing magazines helped us survive the winters (non-sailing season), gave us good project ideas, informed us about various kewl products and boats (although editors of the sailing mags - enough already with the Top 10 Boats of the Year that only 1% of sailors or LESS can afford) and most of all feed our dreams of cruising.  However, we have slowly weened ourselves off the 8 subscriptions we had.

That helped the with the inflow but not the stacks of sailing porn around the house.  So we decide to donate them to a good cause.  We have bundled them up in bundles of 5 and plan to sell them for the first ever Leukemia Cup  (here after know on this blog as L-Cup because Leukemia is too hard to spell each time) hosted by Lake Perry Yacht Club.

The Sailin Sisters New Boat

Her debut

Meet s/v She Worthy.

Sailin Sisters show their appreciation

Perry Yacht Club Sailin Sisters acquired this little diamond in the rough this spring and have been working like crazy to get her ready for the 2012 sailing season on Lake Perry.   She's a Santana 22

Color was custom.  VC17 bottom paint goes with everything.

Yes, that is HOT PINK and it's spectacular!

Special "She Worthy" bubbly to christen her

Well done Sailin Sisters, cheers to you!

*Thanks to PYC member Kevin Mitts for letting me use his pics for this posting.