More Pictures A few pictures of the boat, private beaches, the woodshop, and some crazy looking hooligan.
Typically, on our sailing excursions, we end up calling something like this home for the night. And yes, most of the islands we hit do look like golf courses.

And this is what Karin looks like on the boat. Cute life jacket and inexpensive hat. The sail you see was responsible for knocking that hat off twice during a turn. Twice, in the same day.

This time we actually used a dock. Usually we tie up to rocks, but here we just cruised up to this dock, nobody seemed to mind. We tied the sail to the end of the boat and hung it low to make our shelter. Yes, that's where we slept. Well, we went off into the above pictured tent, but many slept on the boat.

The above mentioned rocks. This is more typical of our docking, just tie up to some large rock. In this case, we had our own private beach where we had a fire and cooked the fish we caught the night before. And this island also looks like a golf course. Some where I mentioned how getting out of the boat and onto land isn't always easy. This would be that picture that is worth a thousand words. It's minor rock climbing to get out.

Karin working in the wood shop. She's running the lathe and grinding a block of birch into a pretty bowl. The guy behind is Inar, the woodshop teacher, and he really is that big. Friggin huge man. And Karin has gotten pretty good at working this machine, I think she's made 2 or 3 bowls so far, and was talking about completing the set of 6.

Here's one of the ruffians I met. Needs a shave. And shower. I mean with a little cleaning up he'd have to carry a stick to keep the women at bay. It's sad to see a fellow human in such condition.
Posted by byron at December 25, 2002 07:55 PM