Sailing with Melvin, Asa and Kate

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.



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