SET SAIL!
The morning is beautiful with a nice light wind blowing, just perfect for Sherry’s and my start of the day for a sailing excursion. We had our morning Coffee and I got ready to dive in the lake and swim out to the buoy where our sailing craft was moored.
This particular point of the lake was somewhat shallow, so it necessitated having to tie up the boat about 25 ft out from the dock, so she did not get buffeted by the waves of the motor boats or get grounded by drifting into too shallow of water. I hand towed the line by swimming it over to the dock and passing it up Sherry, so she could board and then swung myself up and got in the boats cockpit to get ready to make sail. This sailboat was small, only about 25 ft, but I couldn’t even think about dropping the center board, unti
