Two More Sailing Trips!

I'm logging two outings in one post today. Saturday was pretty crazy. I got out of work after a 12 hour shift at 7AM. Did some necessary errands until 9. By then I could see that it was turning into a great sailing day, so started in on building a new rudder. I was originally planning on building something nice, but that takes longer. So I took my skilsaw with its dull blade and hacked out a piece of my marine plywood and roughly copied the pieces of the old rudder. By 11AM I could not stay awake any longer and slept until 2PM. Continued on building the new rudder and by 5:30PM I was sailing, and stayed out until about 9 or 10PM. Passengers were George and Ana. Ana is a grad student at UVM who was googling around last summer trying to find a place to learn how to sail in the Burlington area. In the process, she found my blog and emailed me to ask if I knew of anything affordable. The only place I know about is the Community Sailing Center, which she had already found and was a bit out of her price range. So I said, well, I sail all the time and take people out and teach them to sail, so you could just join us. So she did, and probably will again. So that's pretty cool. My first internet "customer"!

Then there was Monday. Started sailing around 2:30 with Pam and Noelle, and when they left I was by myself and met another Christian out on the water (I mean like, sailing in anther boat on the water, not walking on the water), which was neat. Then in the evening Sam, Christine, and Jenny joined in and we sailed until about 9PM. While solo, I took a bunch of pictures. There a few more pictures of us in the boat, but I have to get them from Sam before I can post them here.