bkfrogma: Class began with Jim giving us an overview of the boats and rigs.
bkfrogma: Ibraham inspects Jim's canoe's leeboard.
bkfrogma: Moving on to look at another boat, this one one that's recently been added to the Sailing Committee fleet.
bkfrogma: More discussion of rigging and outfitting -
bkfrogma: Jim's boat's rudder
bkfrogma: Push-pull steering arrangement #2
bkfrogma: Another solution -
bkfrogma: Rigging the canoe
bkfrogma: C-class sail
bkfrogma: ACA rig
bkfrogma: Launching!
bkfrogma: Zach sets out - this is his personal boat but he let us all try it out during the class. Jim sent Eoin out in the yellow boat since this was that boat's first time on the water in many years -- Jim had fixed her up for the class but there hadn't been a sh
bkfrogma: Another addition to the fantastic assortment of boats going out -
bkfrogma: Another shot on the basin
bkfrogma: Eoin cruises by the dock
bkfrogma: Jim took his canoe, Howie and Hans took Sunfishes, Holly drove Seagull the safety boat, and I rode along and took some pictures
bkfrogma: Collecting out on the bay.
bkfrogma: Eoin catches a gust outside of the Paerdegat
bkfrogma: Eoin again
bkfrogma: Eoin again
bkfrogma: Jim and Zach heading towards us now
bkfrogma: Jim in his boat
bkfrogma: Zach and Howie in Zach's boat
bkfrogma: Holly asks me if I'm ready to try - I'd gone for a warm-up spin on one of the Sunfish & come back feeling ready to give a canoe a try, so, yeah!
bkfrogma: Howie grabbed my camera as Holly got me settled in - I had no plans to try to take pictures while I was in any of the canoes!
bkfrogma: And I'm off...
bkfrogma: Underway, whee!
bkfrogma: Eoin in Jim's boat -
bkfrogma: Hans takes the yellow boat
bkfrogma: Eoin gets ready to try Zach's boat -