I am still learning to sail and for my sixth day on a boat yesterday my pal David let me take a Sunfish out. Okay, this was the first time I have been on anything alone and I had a lot of fun but there were several times that it was so ugly I just had to throw my head back and laugh. I really need some cooperation from mother nature at this point. I need the wind at more than 4mph to come from one direction constantly and not change. Is that so much to ask? This lake has wind jumping around all over it. I was supposed to go around upwind and downwind marks... It was not pretty. LOL. I would be just sailing off trying to get up enough speed to tack laughing the whole way as I go in completely the wrong direction. I can't tell you how many times I ended up in irons.

But in the end, I did learn more about boat handling in those couple of hours than all of the reading about it I could possibly do...And I don't care how ugly it looked...it was fun. If it were easy, I would hate it.