Finally! The weather warmed up enough for Geoffrey and I to take the boat out this weekend. We were hoping for warm weather and light winds, but it wasn’t quite warm enough and the wind couldn’t make up its mind whether to let us sail or not. I was glad I had a jacket and was happy to cuddle up while we switched from sail power to motor power and back…like all the other sailboats out on the lake.

“Geoff, isn’t that boat headed downwind?” I point to a lovely white cruiser off our bow. Geoffrey trains his new spyglass that direction and identifies the type of boat, number of people on board and what they are drinking. I have much less talent with the telescope.
“Yes, they are, but their sails are wrong. Must be why they’re moving so slow.” We watch the boat with its sails fully rigged but pulled in straight, unable to catch any wind, slowly motor towards us.

“They’re cheating!” Geoff declares just as the low hum of a diesel motor catches my ear.
“Then why are their sails even up?” I ask.
“They look pretty?” The couple on the other boat salutes us with their beer cans. Must be nice to have a boat big enough to have a head on board…

…I got Geoff the pirate flag, maybe for his next birthday I’ll get him the brass cannon and let him go capture us a bigger boat…

From our honeymoon. Geoffrey, “Get me a pirate flag and a brass cannon and I’ll show you how to get a bigger boat.”