Video: Laser Tugboat Duties

andyatos

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My daughter Sydney and her boyfriend John came to visit for a few days. The forecast for the coast was nice so we decided to try something new; a Jenner out and return with Sydney and John in the 2 man kayak and Jeannie and Andy in the Laser.

In spite of Sydney and John having a Wind Paddle (a spinnaker for kayaks) that allowed them to sail the downwind portions of the trip, there was still going to be a lot of paddling for those guys... particularly the upwind, return portion of the journey.

So, as another first, I thought I'd see how the Laser would do with some tug boat duties. We ended up towing those guys about 3 miles, 2.5 miles of that while pointing upwind.

Here's some video on how the towing turned out.

- Andy
 
My daughter Sydney and her boyfriend John came to visit for a few days. The forecast for the coast was nice so we decided to try something new; a Jenner out and return with Sydney and John in the 2 man kayak and Jeannie and Andy in the Laser.

In spite of Sydney and John having a Wind Paddle (a spinnaker for kayaks) that allowed them to sail the downwind portions of the trip, there was still going to be a lot of paddling for those guys... particularly the upwind, return portion of the journey.

So, as another first, I thought I'd see how the Laser would do with some tug boat duties. We ended up towing those guys about 3 miles, 2.5 miles of that while pointing upwind.

Here's some video on how the towing turned out.

- Andy
We like all your videos!
 
We like all your videos!
My daughter Sydney and her boyfriend John came to visit for a few days. The forecast for the coast was nice so we decided to try something new; a Jenner out and return with Sydney and John in the 2 man kayak and Jeannie and Andy in the Laser.

In spite of Sydney and John having a Wind Paddle (a spinnaker for kayaks) that allowed them to sail the downwind portions of the trip, there was still going to be a lot of paddling for those guys... particularly the upwind, return portion of the journey.

So, as another first, I thought I'd see how the Laser would do with some tug boat duties. We ended up towing those guys about 3 miles, 2.5 miles of that while pointing upwind.

Here's some video on how the towing turned out.

- Andy
Good job, Andy! The Laser can perform various tow jobs. Once I side-tied an out-of-gas Boston Whaler 15 to mine and hauled him a couple of miles.
 

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