16. the briefest of sails

we took a short little sail out of the creek (so flat and calm and quiet) and back under half of the moon.

15. the inlaws under sail

This summer is turning out to be the summer of first-timers. We took out Allison's two brothers, Rob and Steve, and her sister-in-law, Natalie. We had a perfect day, though toward the end of the sail it got a little, uh, I don't know exactly hot to describe it: hazy, foggy, and threatening sky-ish. It was weird. But it was nice and hot, sunny, and just windy enough.

We sailed around 6, dropped sails, and dropped the hook behind the bridge so we could eat lunch. Anchored right next to us was the beautiful Svedee.









Then we took turns sailing. Here's Rob, looking like he's been doing it his whole life.







And on the way home we saw pretty much my favorite boat on the Great South Bay, Wigeon. This boat lives near us on Sampwam's creek and I always love seeing it go out or come home. It's called a Timber Point, and while there used to be a bunch of them, like a hundred years ago, now's there's just this one sailing and another (also on the Sampwam's creek) that I hear is about to be rebuilt. Sweet.

14. night sail

Alli, Dan, Jar: Out to 6 and back as the sun went down. Only one tack.

13. Stout breeze II

More guests = more breeze. But we had a glorious sail, yet again.

12. We had guests, so...there was a stout breeze...

We had some guests aboard, first time sailors, and as is usually the case in these situations we had a big wind. We had some brisk sailing!

My sailing mojo is as high as ever, but my blogging mojo is non-existent.

Sunset cruising (motor only)