End of the season pic's

Farewell to summer fun!!!

Sail boats with fixed keels have to be hoisted out of the water.

It is an all day process that is actually quite interesting to watch.

they lift the boat up out of the water, set it on a cradle and move it my tractor to it's storage resting place for the winter.

We have a water ballast boat with a swing keel so the only thing we had to do is bring the boat to the ramp and load it onto our trailer, batten down everything and drive it home for storage.

This is Jack & Dave bringing our boat up to the ramp.

This is a picture of our rudder after 5 months of setting in the lake water. The darker areas are Zebra Muscles..... They are nasty little animals that have invaded the Great Lakes...Luckily we didn't have to many to deal with.



Kyla made a lot of new friends threw sailing, The experience we feel has really stretched her in a positive way. One thing we learned this year was that if we gave her jobs to do it kept her mind off her fears relating to sailing, each year she gets more confident...we all do...

This is Kenny...He let me pilot his 36 ft sail boat this summer....What a thrill.!!!!!

Problem is....NOW I WANT A BIGGER BOAT.....LOL...WE NEED $$$$ FIRST...LOL

Kenny was one of Kyla's Favorites at the yacht club.

This is Linda, Her and her husband John were just SO good to kyla too!!!!

This is Jan, and Mary in the back ground....

Dave & Michell were also on her favorites list!!!

Some of her other friends were, Trish & Larry, Bruce & Sue, Bruce & Patty, and Bruce & Mary!!!

thanks to all for helping making our summer a great !

All good things must come to an end

well our little sail boat is in the process of being put away for the season.


We spent most of last winter trying to come up with a name for our little lady, nothing seemed to fit, what I liked Jack didn't and what Jack liked I didn't. That is until one day when I was in a scrap booking store and I pulled out a page that said "Just add water", so I bought the page and showed it to Jack and he liked it too.... So our little lady's name is "Just Add Water"


Kyla had a hard time when we had gusty wind and the boat would heel quickly, but is getting better. We realized toward the end of the season that kyla didn't like it when ever I went up on the bow to hoist the sail. we won't have that problem next year... we are getting a roller furling system & a main sail hoisting system where I will be able to hoist all the sails from the cock pit. I think that will make Kyla feel a lot more at ease.

Next year for our vacation we are planning on trailering our boat up to the north channel and sail for a week with the trailer association.

we would travel north to saute saint Marie Ontario Then east to a little town called Spanish where we will meet up with the group of fellow sailors that we will be cruising with for the next week or so. we will put up our mast, boom and rigging in order to be ready to launch our boat.

Here are just a few pic's of the beauty we will be seeing while we are there.

Looking forward to a new adventure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!