Idyllic Sail on a Saturday Afternoon

Here's a short video clip I shot on board Moonbeam this past Saturday afternoon looking aft from the cabin. A beautifully crisp fall day with a good 15 knot easterly breeze and waves in the 2-4 foot range. After rounding the outer bouy, I took a reach on a 330 degree heading and flew like the breeze for a couple hours before heading back. The ghost of Davy Jones is NOT at the helm - I have an auto pilot that comes in handy on long passages. If not for the press of real life, I could have kept on going all the way to Canada! They say that owning a sailboat is 80% work and 20% pleasure - I can well agree as I think of scrapping away every flake of bottom paint over the fall, winter and early spring two years ago, but that 20% on days like these makes it all worth it!