Dove the Ariel this past weekend and scraped the mussels and barnacles off her bottom. The accumulation wasn't too bad, I have been scrubbing the hull with a brush on a long pole. Afterward I finished the job with a Scotch Bright pad. I should have done this before, the bottom cleaning along with the repositioning forward of the Ariel's genoa tracks have elimination my weather helm complaints. The boat is now a pleasure to sail even as the winds pick up into the higher teens.

Urban Commander? Spotted this Commander floating in Newtown Creek, an estuary of the East River that runs between Brooklyn in Queens near my home. I don't think it's been moved in several years.