Maiden Voyage (Fo' Rizzle!)

Who's crazy enough to go sailing the day after a hurricane? These kids, that's who!

Annabel Lee, meet I-Van the Terrible (That's Chris's van's name)

The boat from the car.

Got the mast up!

And then the boom.

Then the sails (yes, this is a lot of work)

And we're off!

It was quite windy at first... at one point, one side of the boat was IN the water from us leaning so far over. I may have panicked a bit...

Main sail



Sailors



We found this new cheap light beer: Port Republic. Its motto is "Sail Close to the Wind."

A small island we anchored behind.



Chris's rudder assembly worked great!



Yaaar!



Captain

Everything worked great- Pretty awesome. Hopefully we'll get to go on a day that isn't quite as windy, so I feel comfortable enough to take the tiller and learn a little. For now, I've got the jib (the baby sail in front of the mast) down.

How were your hurricane weekends?