On board Madsu on a sunny and windy Saturday afternoon in Howe Sound heading out to the Straight of Georgia. We’re beating to windward doing about 5 knots and heeled about 12 degrees. Britannia is outbound from Squamish to Vancouver. The foredeck was packed with young girls yelling hello. In the foreground, clamped to my BBQ mount is our solar battery charger – it works like a charm.

EB’s on the tiller doing a respectable 5.2 knots SMG – got to like that GPS.

Meanwhile, the boys were up on the weather rail cooling off with a little toe dip in the salt chuck.