another family adventure

We recently were able to get a sailing boat at a give away price, it needed some repairs and there is still more to do on it. but we decided to take it for a test run this family day. So kenny and myself and Sam and Adrian took it out for a run. Here are some pics to tell the story.

Here we are all hitched up and pulling out.

Here we are at Boerne Lake getting ready to drop it in the water. The boat is 14 ft Hobie cat style. It was a beautiful windy day.


We had it out for the morning and learned how to use the front sail. It went pretty fast and everything seem to work well. There is a small dock there so we moored the boat for lunch. Sorry i don't have more sailing pictures of the boat. The only time i was dry and had my camera was when i was on the shore.

We figured out how to use the Jibe and got it to tack pretty good. We added the main sail and it really got going fast. The lake suddenly got quite small. Sorry I did not get any pictures of both sails up.
Over all we are very happy with the boat and it seems to work well. We will do some more repairs on it and give it a name. Something like the flying Dutchmen or something like that.
I really want to teach the boys to sail with it, But i gotta learn first so i got some books on it and we will see how it goes. Keep you posted.