We were on a really nice ship today.  It was the first time it had been taken out for a class.  The ship was really nice to handle and had roller furling in the main sail in addition to the jib.  the name of the boat was Cat’ 350 because it was a Catalina 350.  Not very creative, but certainly clear.  This is one of the ships that I’d like to take out cruising.  We did some parking drills today, and Steph is certainly the best at it.  I’m getting pretty good at points of sail, taking, and jibing.  I really enjoy learning from Steve, but it is sad he won’t be able to teach us the last class and give us the test.  Steph and I are going to try sailing around Shoreline Lake next weekend to practice the points of sail and parking.  I wonder if the dock hands will be annoyed by us trying to practice parking.  We did lots of man overboard drills.  Steph lost her hat and we were able to do a man overboard drill to go pick it up, which was pretty impressive.

Also, we saw a baby sea otter!!!! it was sooooo cute!!!!

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