Tracking our Sunday sail

I found a great site called GPS Visualizer which will take your GPS tracking information and turn it into a Google Map. Shown here is our track from our Sunday sail of Lake Gaston. Winds were out of the south-southwest if I recall, and were fairly strong.

You can see our outbound trip in blue and our return trip in purple. As you can see, we had to make a few tacks as we were sailing close-hauled due to the wind. The southernmost point on the purple line is where we almost got dumped by a rogue gust (one of the dangers of sailing close-hauled). At that point, I yanked the sails down and we motored back to the dock!

There was also an incident where a pontoon boat, apparently piloted by a blind woman, crossed dangerously close in front of us, missing us by mere yards. Apparently she was unfamiliar with the rules of the road and couldn’t see the 25-foot sail in front of her.