we went sailing yesterday, and no one drowned, and the boat didn’t capsize, nor sink. in fact, the only real problem was one nice head bonk indirectly related to the fact that the is a poorly located cleat about 5 feet up the mast that the jib sail keeps getting stuck on:
sarah: “i’m gonna stand up and get the jib unstuck from that cleat, are you going to jibe?”
becca: “no.”
sarah: “ok.”
so i stood up to unstick the jib, becca accidentally jibed, the boom swung across and WHAP into the side of my head. i was not a happy camper (er, sailor) at that moment, and pondered throwing becca overboard and heading back to shore with matt. but i didn’t. perhaps from now on, i’ll do most of the steering though.
anyway, all in all the first sailing of our new old boat was a rousing success. matt, george, and rich came out to watch/laugh, and nick brought his sailboat as well, so it was a nice little away-from-work gathering on the lake. it took us some time and assistance to rig everything, but getting it into the water was simple enough, and i think we did very well with the actual sailing part. we went probably two-thirds of the way down the lake (far enough to admire the expensive clear lakes shores houses) and then meandered back. getting the boat out of the water was more difficult than in, but i suppose that’s to be expected, what with having to work against gravity and all. derigging is of course much quicker than rigging as well.
all in all, we spent five and a half hours outside, 3 hours of which were actually spent in the boat on the water. and i only got slightly sunburned! go me.
in other news, kennda has gone out of town, and i, in an i-want-a-pet moment of weakness, volunteered to take her cat. so i have a cat. for the next month, in theory. hmm. i suppose this will be the test of whether i’m a cat person or not. we shall see.
