>wade the boat back to the dock Sounds like my first weekend sailing. It was a weekend school, and on Saturday and the morning of Sunday we were out in heavy wooden gaff-rigged lapstrake dinghies. The teachers had a sense of humor, though, because on Sunday afternoon I was told "you've done ok, why don't you (and girlfriend) take that out this afternoon?".
"That" was a Firefly -- at that time just retired as an Olympic class. Pure racing dinghy, light weight, chock-a-block with control lines, buoyancy bags etc. (Imagine a large and powerful black horse with blazing eyes. Snorting, skipping about at on the tether and in a bad temper). I, too, ended up wading back to the dock pulling the thing. Giles Morris Arlington VA Vancouver 25 "Dolphin" Montgomery 15 "Umiaq" Sundry small craft _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
