Sailing Season Already?!

Every spring Christian gets a little, well, spring in his step as the air gets a tiny bit warmer and sailing season approaches.  Inevitably some grey saturday he'll lower his Laser from the garage rafters onto his little 2-door car and proudly drive off to the yacht club to lovingly unload, spray down, and prep his sailboat for the season.  I think it looks so funny, I just had to take a picture of it.  He races every Tuesday night through the summer and this year because of the unseasonably warm weather the yacht club got going a month early.  Yet, his Memorial Day regatta (where they throw a beer to each sailor at the end of the race - the beer I found in his trunk before I knew about this tradition, but that's another story!) it was blowing 30 knots and the wreckage was so bad out on the lake that they called off the regatta.  So much for mild weather!  Still, this sailor is undaunted and even more excited for a long 4 months of time on the lake.  On my end, after a good sail I can get Christian to do just about anything for me, so I support this hobby!

Wild Weather

Last night we tried out a new beach launch at the South Shore Yacht Club. It was the stickiest day of the summer, so far, but the wind more than made up for it. Christian, Adam, and Joe Miller got knocked down over and over. Talk about a cap-size disaster! Christian even had a moment of feeling like they were really in trouble because the waves were so big they couldn’t get the boat back up for some time. Of course all three of them thought it was awesome. I’m just glad I stayed on the beach. Am I becoming a scared-cat?  These are pictures of the Bahia - Christian's new "baby" that he likes to really get moving with the spinnaker up.  The boat actually hums when the wind hits the three sails just right and you really start to fly.  My stomach still turns to knots after my capsize experience with the kids on board, so the humming isn't quite as exhilarating to me as it is to my sailor.  Baby steps.