Thursday, July 30, 2009

sailing while sinking into sore throat he**

well, today was an interesting endeavor that will affect how we do on our next trip... John is busy looking for the perfect boat. We are almost sure that we will get a Gemini 105 (google that) a catamaran that is designed with a family in mind. He is busy trying to figure out the financial aspects of it, what we will need to do to the boat and so on...

I, ... ahem, I took a sabot sailing lesson today. Yes, I, who used to own a sabot and sailed it around the san Pedro boat marina where we kept La Sonadora (our 25' piver trimaran), I took a lesson in sabot sailing today. And I learned a lot. Unfortunately, T who is the best daughter ever and loves to share things with me, gave me her summer cold and it decided to rear its ugly head this morning. But not enough to make me want to cancel (and pay a cancellation fee) this afore mentioned lesson. So while I was sailing, my body was becoming achy-er & achy-er until I finally pulled a major brain fart, put myself in irons(where you are headed straight into the wind and your sail is flapping uselessly on the mast) and could not figure out how to get myself going forward again. How could this happen to me? you might ask. I, who lived on a trimaran for 2 yrs, sailed down the west coast from San Pedro to San Diego and then on from there down the baja coast, how could I have put myself in irons (that part is easy and done by many a sabot sailor) and then not been able to rectify it on my own? All I can say in my defense, is that I ended up turning to the instructor and telling him to remind me of what I was supposed to do, and then proceeded to do it.

As I did my "push up" onto the dock, out of the sabot, my achy body and sore throat reminded me of why I even considered canceling this morning. Somehow, it was reassuring to me that I am not an idiot, just a sick person who could not remember what to do until reminded by my great instructor, James. Mission Bay Aquatic Center, you guys ROCK!

Hopefully, this will be a good lesson as to why sometimes a non-relative instructor is good for the soul (of learning, that is!)...

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Happy July

For some reason this morning, I got super excited thinking about getting on the boat. We are looking for a Gemini 105. We found one South of Guaymas, about a 10 hr. drive from Nogales crossing in Arizona.

The kids have taken a week of sailing lessons, and later this week I plan on getting "checked out" on the equipment at the Mission Bay Aquatic Center, so that we can have some days sailing in the sabot. Later in the summer, L&T will take an advanced sailing lessons for a week. I will post a couple of pix of the boat next time.