The Griswalds Family Vacation - Sailing at Jericho Beach

Jan and I wanted to take Laura and Thomas out on the Hobbie Cat 16. We headed down to the Jericho Sailing Centre for an afternoon at the beach. For those of you that don't know a Hobie Cat is a two person catamaran. Laura and Jan have been sailing all their lives but Thomas and I have not. Laura and Thomas own a Shark sailboat at home (24 foot sailboat) but Thomas concluded that it was the first time he really enjoyed sailing. Probably because out on the Hobbie one can go out on the trapeze. I won't be able to explain this properly but you wear a harness and hang over the edge of the boat. The photo here is not our boat but it gives you an idea of "being out on the wire" and "flying a hull." Jan and I have gotten the hull up a bit but not too much as I'm super inexperienced and apparently it's a real pain to right the boat if you flip it.






August is too small to brave the waters so he enjoyed playing with sand for the first time in his life. He was a bit baffled by it and how it just doesn't come off once you are wet. Once Thomas made a sand castle with him he started to apprecitate the beach a bit more. He was also not to keen on the waves and who can blame him...they were the same size as him!