Ok, so I'm pretty bad at this blog thing. I haven't done any more work on the sculling boat, but I have been sailing a few times.

I had a few of the trips written up, but can't find them, and I am too lazy to recreate them. I also lost the full version of this trip too. So here is the truncated version.

Justin and I went sailing one fine Sunday morning in April. Law makers at one time decided that if you bought beer before 11am on Sundays the fabric of our society would be irreparable torn, so in their infinite wisdom they banned alcohol sales til after 11am. Not a big fan of that law. Well we shoved off around 10am, and were precariously low on beer. Rather than circle the Pier until 11 and come back to pick up the beer we decided to sail around the southern tip of Pinellas county to Gulfport. There we met our buddy Tim, drank at a cool beach bar called O'Maddy's ($7 pitchers of Anchor Steam and Longhammer IPA YUM), loaded up (I love puns...) on beer and sausage to grill for the sail back. Memorably most of the return sail was done under asymmetrical spinnaker and was a total blast. So we spent 10 hours sailing and drinking and generally having a good time. Check out the google map and picture gallery below.

Moral of the story - Beer tastes better after a 4 hour sail to reach the destination (even if you could have driven to the bar in less than 20 minutes from your slip). Gulfport is a really fun destination. Well mantained public slips are open from 6am to 11pm, a nice dinghy dock and anchorage. There are plenty of beach bars and restaurants near the docks too.