Sailing in Casco Bay

Yesterday my wife, her mother and I enjoyed beautiful blue skies, pleasant temperatures and stiff breezes as the Windchaser bent to the wind. Being Sunday, there were many other sailors on the water enjoying beautiful views while providing them to folks on shore. Our poodle enjoyed the adventure except for extreme healing that made its positioning difficult in the cockpit well. This annoyance was compensated for by snacks along the way. The only difficulty was that the pickup buoy on the mooring became tangled in the pendent. I had dropped my passengers off at the dock and was single handing. Untangling the pickup buoy required leaning over the side during a slow pass and giving it a yank. Thus freed, the rest of the operation went without a hich.