Lindy Thibodaux

What an incredible afternoon on the water! Sunny, a perfect 70-degree temp, and the gorgeous view upriver of Mount Hood. Not to mention wind at roughly 10 gusting to 20+ knots, changing direction and speed about every 30 seconds. So much fun, including some wonderful heels and tacking back with a partially-furled jib to mitigate some of the heavier gusts. Thank you so much, Leticia, Michelle, and Julie, for including me today! Now I shall sleep for approximately a day and a half.

Note: We were actually at Ryan’s Marina, which didn’t show up as an option on the map when I manually added this sail after we got back. LOL = Labor of Love, an annual OWSA event when we show appreciation to our Wednesday Night Sail skippers by helping them clean, repair, and generally beautify their boats. Along with Glenda, Karen, and Bree, we helped skipper Carisa with hull cleaning, creating & testing a new system for attaching fenders, cleaning storage bins, even removing a stove for repairs. It was a gorgeous breezy day, and Ryan’s Marina put us directly out into the river, so Carisa was nice enough to treat us to a lovely sail!

Such a gorgeous day on the water, made even better with these wonderful OWSA ladies! (Oregon Women’s Sailing Association.)

When we were getting ready to take out a new Island Sailing Club boat, we had an unplanned lesson on batteries, fortunately before we left the dock. Out on the river, it was more wing-on-wing action to go with the winged keel on Leucothea, as we maneuvered around a huge barge. It was a great day to be out, despite the additional excitement (??) of my phone slipping overboard— a first for me, hopefully the last (knock on teak). Hence this semi-accurate manual entry— I was the one recording our sail.