Sea Trials

We chose Edmonds as our launching point for Labor Day weekend.  We launched on Sunday with a bunch of help from our friends Reini and Gay.  After spending a rainy night in the launch parking lot we were ready to go.  We woke up early as the night in the boat was a bit, well, hard.  We haven't bought interior cushions yet so it was just sleeping bags on mahogany. Emily slept on a pile of comforters and was quite happy.  We went to Fisheries Supplies for some last minute materials and then went back down to Edmonds to begin rigging.  Gay Morris arrived unexpectedly and was a fantastic help in rigging the mast.  Then it was time to splash Blizzard.  It went off without a hitch a soon we were dropping the rudder and keel and lifting the mast.  Reini and Chris were an unbelievable help and we took them on our first sail.  During all of this time Emily was an unbelievable angel.  Playing all day prior to sailing in the v-birth coloring and making creative projects and only popping out occasionally to show us our her work.  As soon as we were underway she was crawling around the deck happily.  We dropped Reini and Chris back in Edmonds and then sailed Kingston.  Blizzard sailed strong and we could see how great she will be with some tweaking.  We docked and Kingston and had dinner in town.  It was great to enjoy and bit of dock camaraderie reminding us of one of the awesome things about sailing.   The next morning we got fresh cooked mini doughnuts and sailed back to Edmonds.  We texted Sally to bring Megan and Casey to come to Edmonds for a sail upon our arrival back in port.  Megan and Casey were great sailors and helped pulling lines.  We sailed over for ice cream in Kingston and a motor-sail back to Edmonds.  Sally was a great help in taking down the mast.  We motored over to be pulled out only to find the lift had closed, so we ended up leaving Blizzard tied up in guest moorage for the night.  We arrived home exhausted and sore but very satisfied with our first sailing adventure.