The first trip out was as a row boat.
I installed a set of oarlocks, put an umbrella in the mast step hole, and we went rowing.
The girls really loved it, and we went rowing often.
I saw in the old advertisements that this boat was sold as a "family daysailor", said something about "take the wife and kids...". So hey, I saw it in print, so it must be true right? I took my wife and both kids a number of times, and while we were all cozy together, we realy could all fit in there, it was fun! Sure was a lot more space than when I took us all on my Splash II kayak, and we all fit in there fine too.
The first sail rig was a sunfish lateen.
The original holder was specified to have 60 sqft, and the sunfish sail is more like 80.
It worked great.
Took lots of trips in her, this is a wrecked shriper I sailed past at Palacios.
Ahhh.... doesn't get any better than this.
(look up at sky, hope for swedish bikini team to parachute in with some beer...)
She might look rough, but she sure is nice to sail.
I also had a $10K Peep Hen at the same time, and every time I took her out, I would worry about everything, didn't want to get a single scratch.
With the holder, I could run her right up on the beach and not worry about a thing, if I scratched (or holed) her, it was just a couple of minutes in the garage slathering a little epoxy on, and she would be as good as new ....errr... as good as the day I first launched her.
The real reason she was in the pool was I ran out of storage space, and had nowhere else to put her.
So she sat in my pool for a couple months while I sold off some other boats, and got a replacement trailer.
On long phone calls, I would go out back and sit in the hull and float around the pool.
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