After the purchase of our sailboat we spent our first available weekend picking up a few items for her and to take her out on a checkout run together. It was a beautiful day for it.
Ryker and Kiri went along too, wearing their very own doggie life jackets. Kiri doesn't really care for hers - maybe it isn't in the right princess colors for our spoiled little girl. Both dogs did great though, eventually settling down on the cushions and watching the sights.
Never having sailed before, I have to admit that I was a bit nervous at the thought of all of the freighter traffic that travels through the bay area. It was right around this time that a sailboat tried to make it between a freighter and its tug. The sailboat lost.
On our way back in we were able to assist another couple in a sailboat that had become disabled. Strangely enough, they had also just bought their boat two weeks before (paying a bit more than we did) and it was their first time out that day too! We towed them back to their slip and they kindly thanked us with a very nice card as well as a gift card for a meal at a steakhouse. It was much more than was necessary, after all, who knows when we might be in need of help?
Even though the wind wasn't very cooperative on our first day out, it was a fantastic day with a great ending.
