I think I mentioned that a friend I've known since 7th grade, Penny, comes to CA (from Washington State) on business periodically and gets together with us for dinner. We'd been talking about sailing because she sails all the time and we just got our Aquarius 23 in December. Well, Sunday she was actually able to extend her trip long enough to visit our boat in Dana Point and help us take it out for the first time. Don has sailed before where my experience is much more limited, so for him it's just remembering combined with some common sense. For me it's a matter of learning a whole new science. Using our electric motor we took it out past the breakwaters, into the wind and swells. I got to be Tiller Girl and direction determiner while they trimmed the sails to accomodate me. :-) FUN!
The boat behind us here, by the way, is actually not ours, it's one she raced against in a Newport Ensenada race, called No Parle...or is it No Parly... No Parley? Sorry. I don't remember! It's a Cal 40 like the one she generally sails.
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