ETC took the family for a little sail a few weekends ago. We set out sailing South from Shilshole marina, towards downtown Seattle in Elliot Bay. It was an almost normal sail until our poor little dinghy Kya came undone from the mothership. Luckily we noticed she had gone missing - the bad part was we had to wait out some giant cargo ship wake before we could turn around and grab her. We did get her back on the first pass and completely under sail...not bad!
   ~Paul, Amber, Kali (the cat hiding down below)

   At this point I think I'm posting jobs just so I can one day look back and find out what I did all summer. Next on the list: clean our dinghy Kya (Bob Marley song/album reference) (the wife grew up in Jamaica). I would love to get a new sailing dinghy in the future but for now she's all we've got. She wasn't that dirty, just a little boat soap and some scrubbing is all it took.

Above: Kya has these handy metal thingys installed so that they hook on the back of Kingsley (the boat). Although it stores her nice under sail I don't really like it because it blocks access to the back of the boat (future lake swimming because Kingsley's back opens down to the waterline).

Below: A handy way to hold Kya on our dock posts (which we had to rent extra from the marina) while I grabbed the rope to tie her up for real.