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# Sailing ... slightly cold but still nice
- URL: https://seabits.com/sailing-slightly-cold-still-nice/
- Published: 2009-02-17T05:45:50.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-21T02:30:47.000Z
- Author: Steve Mitchell
- Tags: Trips

In the last two weeks I’ve been out on the water twice, once only for a short sail (about 2 hours) and today for about 4\. Last week it never got above 40 degrees, and there was ice on the deck when I left. Today it was a little warmer, but still only got up to 50 degrees. As I always do when I’m sailing, I used my [SPOT Satellite Tracker](http://www.findmespot.com/en/?ref=seabits.com) to send notes to my crew on shore to let them know I was OK.

My [Tacktick wind instrument](http://www.tacktick.com/products/145?ref=seabits.com) isn’t working, and I’m working to get it repaired, so I ended up having to spend a lot more time paying attention to the wind and steering more manually, which is fine with me, at least every once in a while. At one point there were some sustained winds of at least 25kts for about 45 minutes – very fun!

The new [Nauticast AIS](https://seabits.com/acr-nauticast-class-b-transponder) transponder is working great – I removed my SR 162 AIS receiver and took it home (more on this later) and directly wired the Nauticast into my chartplotter and multiplexer a few days ago. I’m hoping others are seeing me too – the whole reason for broadcasting it in the first place.

Hopefully I’ll get some more chances to sail even in these cold months!