Okolehao Sailing Trip

The first weekend of February I went sailing with Arthur and a crew of fine people. We had absolutely NO wind on Saturday. So we basically floated around on Puget Sound, drank beer, enjoyed life and the late Winter sun.

Arthur, Skipper aboard the Okolehao.

I picked up a few new words and terms on that trip. One of them was rail meat. In order to get the boat going you apparently need to put ballast on one side of the boat. People make great ballast...

More rail meat. We had an eight gallon keg of beer aboard and we actually thoght of using that as ballast. But we couldn't really find an optimal position for it. We needed access to the beer, it should be in a good position for ballast, and we did NOT want to drop it into the Sound.

Me, myself, and I. All three of us drinking beer...

The Happy Couple.

It rained most of the night. When we woke up Sunday morning the sky looked pretty bad. It didn't rain, though. In Seattle this counts as a sunny day... :-)

No rain but plenty of wind! We raised the jib and main sail and reached a cruising speed of about seven knots. Not bad at all...

I don't know if Marc thought Okolehao was a submarine. We sailed with the railing under the water line for quite some time... What an awesome trip.