Kitchen Sink Sail— a little bit of a lot of different things

Lindy Thibodaux

Off the top of my head: A boat none of us were familiar with, including a tiller and virtually no instruments, a near-miss getting out of the marina, a brief but memorable almost running aground episode (first time I could actually see the riverbed), Sunday races going on all around us, not 1 but 2 big barges, generally more traffic to contend with than usual on the river, and to top it all off, an outboard motor which randomly turned itself off, then back on, wouldn’t stay down in the water or respond to throttle inputs— which necessitated calling ISC out to guide us back into the marina under partial sail. Never, never a dull moment! I suspect this will only be #1 in an ongoing series: The Kitchen Sink Sails. You heard it here first!