to the dock was a small fishing boat, sunk, there beside it in about ten feet of water was the boat’s motor. All this destruction caused by the high, wind driven waves. We felt lucky to get out with just a cockpit full of water. There is enough room, barely, to pull out and soon the boat is up on somewhat dry land. The mast comes down and we return to the leaky tent for the rest of the night and in the morning left in our nice, dry car. It would be some thirty years before we again pitched a tent and you guessed it, it RAINED. It was now time for yet another


decision. The dry car gave us the idea, “Why not a dry boat?” Cars have hard tops and dry interiors, how about a boat with a hard top and thus a dry cabin? Sounds simple, but in reality it took us another two years before we could make it all happen. In doing so, this decision lead us, in hind sight, to the big family decision. Our family was again on the grow


and we needed a boat with more room and a little more security, like a swing keel to make her self righting. There would be no more tent camping for us. So it was here we made the big decision


…we made the big decision and that was to become a “sailing family.” If we sailed it would be as a family. All trips were going to include all the kids, all the time.


and that was to become a “sailing family.” If we sailed it would be as a family. All trips were going to include all the kids, all the time. Our new boat arrived on the same


day as our third child, April, came into this world. As the boat was a fulfillment of a dream and a start of a new way of life for the family, we call her Fantasy. She was a 21-foot MacGregor and to say the kids grew up on her would be an understatement. Where the boat went, so too did our, now, three kids. Our first sail was when April was


only a couple of weeks old. Almost every weekend saw us somewhere on either a lake or reservoir in Southern Idaho, just as long as the water held out. Within a couple of years we were blessed with our fourth child, Crystal, and, of course, she too grew up sailing, in fact she became the real sailor of the family.


Many a long weekend was spent on


the high mountain lakes and reservoirs of our state. If it rained, so be it , that’s why we have a cabin on the boat. Now that cabin only worked for the family when they stayed inside, while the skipper, me, stayed outside and sailed in the rain. Oh well, that is the lot of the poor sailorman. These trips would see us pulled up on a sandy beach, Fantasy’s retractable keel really helped there, for a day of sand castle building and fishing. In fact each of our four kids caught their first fish on such outings. I think the kids enjoyed these trips, although when Teresa and I tried to introduce them to one of our childhood favorites, Smores, the kids were less, and I do mean less, than thrilled. They thought that putting a marshmallow and a piece of chocolate on a graham cracker was a waste of a marshmallow, a piece of chocolate and the graham cracker. Well sometimes it works and sometime times it doesn’t. In the off season, about September


through April, we would try to expand our experiences by planning new adventures for the following year. So it was in the year of 1987 we sat down


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