Cassidy Sold!

Schoolwork has been taking up the bulk of my time and I've not been able to hoist Cassidy's sails in quite some time. Deciding to sell her was a difficult decision, but obviously the right one. Hopefully her new owners will be able to spend more quality time at the helm. Couldn't have gone to nicer folks and I know that they will treat her well and enjoy sailing Kerr Lake here in NC.

So, it look like a single-handed, single-handed-launch dinghy might be in my future. We'll see.

Found a cool blog post that combines my two loves: geography and sailing. Essentially they used opensource GIS and statistical tools (GRASS and R) to analyze GPS tracks obtained while sailing a Hobie 16. Very cool stuff, and something that I'm anxious to try. A GoogleEarth/Maps mashup would be the cat's meow!