back on the boat again . . . finally

Just in time for opening day Sam got his boat back for the weekend. We didn't know if we would even have the boat back as the keel didn't get put back on until this week. Being a sailboat the keel was a bit critical for us to get on the water. Weds we got the news we would have it for the weekend but we would have to drop it back off at the boatyard on Sunday to have the keel become symmetrical.

We picked up the boat Friday evening after work and headed over to SYC after frantically loading it up and trying to clean it up a bit. Saturday came with rain but by parade time it had cleared up and while it wasn't sunny it wasn't too wet. Tanya, Carla, Dave, and Paul joined us on the boat for the day and to help with our Go Cougs chanting.

Plenty of Cougar spirit made for a great day on the water and after stopping by Meydenbauer Yacht Club in Bellevue for the hamburgers they all convinced me to raise the sails. Yes I know I had to be convinced but when Sam was putting on the sails himself Friday nite at 6:30 it does make me a bit nervous to test them out. Sam was excited to be back on his boat if even for a short weekend.

Sunday was beautiful and sunny so it was a great day to take the boat back and the good thing about taking it back to the yard was not having to go through the locks with all of the other opening day boaters. Once again I think the Cougar spirit definitely outdid the Huskies which after all is the reason for the Cougar Yacht Club to be in existence. Go COUGS!