Kingfisher Yacht Cyprus

One of my friends, Peter, has been asking to sail for months, nay, years and it has never worked out. So on Friday, when we were at a meeting together I said 'How about Monday?' and so yesterday we went out for a sail in Liza . The track in green shows where we went. There was almost no wind. We sailed, but barely. But it was great to be out on the water again. Helen, my new 10-year-old crew member, learned some new knots (well, hitch actually, but we'll call it a knot) and how helming a sailing boat with almost no wind is really not that easy to keep the sails full of the non-existent wind!

Wind? Hmmm... no. Other sailing friends suggested it wasn't worth going out yesterday with Melvin, Asa and Kate. I guess it's as much an excuse for sunbathing and having a meal together on the water as anything else. Kate had sailed Toppers and other small boats and found that yacht sailing is the same, just bigger! I remember the first time I went from dinghy to yacht I was almost frightened by the size of the sails… and Liza isn't a big yacht by any stretch of the imagination. And with a very big rudder, she is light and handles almost like a big dinghy.