The perfect sailing moments DO come! Sunny, but not too hot. Mixed with windy, about 15 knots of breeze from a fair direction. Peppered with just enough time to sit on the rail and breathe in the clean, ocean air spiced with the faint scent of seaweed from the beach, salt and the warm scent of pine from the islands.
Cape Elizabeth Community Center adventure camps for kids have been sailing with us for six years now. The kids, range in age from 13 to 17, and they were the lucky recipient of our perfect day.
Webster Head was our destination, with wind out of the South, it was just enough in the lee of the island of North Haven to give us a flat calm anchorage. In over 20 years of sailing these waters, we've never had the opportunity to anchor there. Just gorgeous.
The kids all jumped in the brisk water and then had dinner in the gloam of the setting daylight.
Annie
The summer is almost half over and we feel as if it's just begun after such a gift of a day.
© 2009 Schooner J. & E. Riggin
