Picture of the season

Athene V30

Athene V30

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I know there is a while to go yet but for my short season this has to be the best picture for me.

Sunny, good breeze (well perhaps a bit much for SWMBO!), warm and a crew onboard - what more could I want!

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There is definately some interest from smallest son. He even learnt to tie a clove hitch so he could help put out the fenders.

What's yours?
 
Watching your journey from despair (with Flipper) to this reminds me (in the words of Sir Sydney Smith) that Life/Fate is a wheel and that when anyone is at the bottom of the wheel there should be no despair because it is a wheel and that for that reason with resolution it will turn and those at the bottom will rise again for the same reason that those at the top will fall (pay attention Mandy).

Rather nice - got me all wistful - any chance you could work some magic on my two grandchildren?
 
My son is 7, and had been badgering me for weeks to go out for a few days (he was hoping non-stop!). As he seems to get sea sick in the faintest of seas this did not seem to be the most pleasant of thoughts, but took him for an overnight at anchor last week, with a 5 hour sail on each day.

He is one of these children who is constantly talking and asking questions - some of them dotty, some very inteligent and often repeated from earlier. His handbearing work is probably better than some adults, and he shows a keen interest in chartwork, so the trip is spent 10% me running the boat and 90% with him (makes good watchkeeping hard). If he had a longer attention span I would put him on the helm, but his mind wanders after a couple of minutes to other matters making out track rather eratic.

Anyway, on the way back, running out of easy things to do we did some knots. He mastered a few easy ones quickly, so in a bid to keep him quiet for a while I set him on to learning a bowline (remembering it took me a while to really master this one all those years ago) - and he did it in about 10 minutes. Oh well. After that it was back to answering questions like 'dad - why is the sea so salty?'.
 
Have you tried teaching your kids the VHF Phonetic Alphabet? We were gobsmacked when my 11 yr old grandson learnt it in about 10 minutes! And he remembered it several weeks later when we tested him unexpectantly. All we have to do now is persuade him to use the VHF.
 
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