We’ve been in school this weekend. Friends of ours have been visiting. They’re staying with us but visiting with other friends while in town. During the time they’ve spent with us we’ve been doing various things, including mostly a relaxing weekend, but we’ve also been in sailing school.
There will be four adults on the sail boat come July when we go on a ten-day tour of the islands surrounding St. Thomas, our departure port. We’re responsible for a forty-four foot catamaran boat we’ll be renting and the job of maneuvering and sailing is non-trivial.
We started out by learning boar terminology for directions surrounding the boat. Saying, “at nine o’clock" isn’t boat-ish enough. There is a lot of tradition in sailing and boating in general, including saying, “Arr!” with a number of things.
We all studied up and my children paid careful attention (when they weren’t goofing around). We have a good bit more to learn. I think my husband and I may need to go to YouTube school before July to get a good handle on things because we’ll be fifty percent of the adult crew on board.
The Big Boy Update: My son, whom I thought wasn’t paying attention to the boating directions on Friday, turned out to have paid more attention than me as he told Richard all the directions (with a little assistance) tonight. He’s going to be a good sailor.
The Tiny Girl Chronicles: My daughter is the best knot tier in the whole family, but she fell asleep on the floor for the second night running and missed out on the boating lesson again. We’ll catch her up before the trip though.
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