Great day for a sail

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Great time today sailing on the Lagoon 44 "Lazzarone" owned owned by Steve &Susan. Sailed out of the inlet at about noon with a light breeze out of the northeast. Threw up the cruising chute and sailed on a reach out into the Gulfstream. The water turned really blue and the rollers built up to 8-10 ft. The huge cat takes these seas beautifully with almost no sense of pitching as would get on some monohulls. In early afternoon the wind started to increase to 10-15 with caps. We doused the chute and
put up the white sails and made our way back. Then took their RIB dinghy with a big 50 over to West Palm for giant giant burgers at the Grease Burger bar

Tomorrow there is a race in the PM. We plan to win.

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