Gerard wanted to get out for a sail, and the forecast was for another 30 plus day. We arranged to meet at Werribee South at 8 to try and beat some of the heat. My back is still dicy so I took Derry the Skerry. After I rigged up, I noticed a chap rigging a handsome looking sailing dinghy over near the ramps, so I went over to say hello. "Is that a Stornaway?" I asked. "Yes"he replied,"Are you Gary?"
He had watched some of my videos and recog ized me. Or perhaps the doggy sailing hat and checked shirt which I realise I tend to be wearing in many of them.
It was a nice coincidence meeting him, and even more of a coincidence as we discovered that he and Gerard had served on the same ship in 1978.
We sailed in company out and up the coast, rafted up for lunch, and backed the jetty where after a reasonable docking under sail imaged to nearly fall in and capsize the boat. I think it was the heat.
Derry the Skerry was quite liberating, I confidently cut across the sandbars and would have been happy to beach for lunch. And I was first back to the ramp, no stuffing round dropping sail and following the channel. I will have to work on getting better organised though, somehow I seem to get into a mess. Of ropes and bits. Maybe some more bags to stow things, maybe some saddle eyes along the front to make a secure storage area.
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