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- June 22, 2009by MurphKelly Sails into the Slip, June 18 - 21 This past weekend, June 18 - 21, Mia and I sailed to our first Great Lakes Cruising Club (GLCC) event in Leamington, Ontario. It was a terrific time! The forecast called for light winds on Thursday and Sunday, with lots of storms of Friday and Saturday. As...
- June 22, 2009by MurphFamilies Sail Kelly IV, June 12 - 14 The Stewart and Paviol families sailed Kelly IV June 12 - 14, with Bill and Sarah Paviol enjoying Cedar Point on Friday before "Guy" and Whitney Stewart came on board Friday evening. Bill & Sarah drove to Sandusky on Thursday night and opened up Kelly IV...
- June 05, 2009by MurphKelly IV Sail Weekend Sandusky 5/28-31 Crew: Keith Otto, Val Schwarzmueller Kelly IV Sail Weekend Sandusky 6/5 Crew: Allen Murphy IV Kelly IV Sail Weekend Sandusky 6/18-20 Crew: Jack VanArsdale, Keith Otto Kelly IV Sail Sandusky 6/21-23 Crew: Solo Kelly IV Sail Weekend Sandusky Sun 7/2-4 Crew:...
- June 01, 2009by MurphMay 30-31, 2009 Ollie Browne and I sailed a wonderful trip up the east side of Kelley's Island, then across the north of Kelley's into the channel between Middle Bass, Ballast, and South Bass Islands. The breeze was a very nice 10 - 15 knots with very small waves (1 -2 feet) through most of the...
- May 26, 2009by MurphRockin’ and Rollin’ May 24 - 25, 2009 Keith Otto and I sailed from Sandusky Harbor Marina on Saturday morning of the Memorial Day weekend and found ourselves motoring directly into the NE breeze to clear Sandusky Bay. Even though we turned to the NW when we left the Bay, the leeway carried us far...
- May 18, 2009by MurphThe Finishers! May 17, 2009 Keith Otto, Bill Paviol and daughter Sarah Paviol came to Sandusky on Saturday evening and worked all day Sunday to complete the work needed to get Kelly IV ready to splash! Keith removed the starboard side adhesive left from the removed boot stripe, then washed, waxed...
- May 11, 2009by MurphYesterday, May 9, Jack VanArsdale performed a yeoman's effort, achieving grand results! He one-handedly washed, cleaned, waxed, then buffed the entire topsides! And he did all this work after removing the adhesive left behind from the port side boot stripe. Jack and I drove to the marina...
- April 06, 2009by MurphApril 4-5, 2009 How long to tighten a bolt? "Guy" Stewart and Sean Stull joined me for a terrific and very busy work weekend! We got a late start leaving Cranberry about 9:45pm on Friday evening, but still got a decent night's sleep on board Kelly IV. We were up for breakfast by 7:30am and...
- March 23, 2009by MurphThis past weekend I enjoyed the company and hard work of Bill & Sarah Paviol, Jim Clark, and Keith Otto. All these folks joined me for some big projects on Kelly IV. Jim & Keith re-installed the traveler with its new sheaves from Garhauer. This was a huge job as it entailed working in the...
- October 06, 2008by MurphOctober 4-5, 2008 Beautiful Autumn Sailing Warren “Guy” Stewart and Jack vanArsdale crewed our last sail of the season on a perfect fall weekend. We motor sailed out of Sandusky Bay and turned Southeast toward Vermilion, Ohio. The northerly breeze proved enough to turn the iron genny off and...
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