After spending the morning fiberglassing following our last adventure (long story, and worth more set up than this blog post), Riley and I got out together on a Sunfish and flew across the lake we like so much here. He's a natural, who is now probably only learning bad sailing habits from me. It's still incredibly fun, though; and gives me some hints on how to try to keep up with him, racing separate boats, in the future.

Kudos to the foresight of previous north Texans who dug and dammed all the lakes around Dallas. After the summer drought it's amazing we have any water, much less enough to sail on.

In sequence (from footage we grabbed using a fun waterproof camera from Kodak)

1) Tiller hand off to Riley in the cockpit. A nice perspective of the lake horizon.

2) Starting to get out on the side of the boat, with a quick camera dunk in the water.

3) Riley in command. Crazy rudder action not what I'd tend to suggest, but that's probably one reason Riley sails better than I do. Some very crisp cleating action, too.

A larger version (560 px width instead of 400 px) of video 3:

If links don't work, other source for the three videos might be:
http://www.youtube.com/user/itsawrap2002?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/rrBnxWFvEuI