As trailer sailors we rarely get to experience the "hanging out on the dock" scene those folks with the bigger boats enjoy. This past summer I splurged and booked Bluster into a slip in the Gibsons Marina. This allowed for me, alone or with guests, take her out for a spin without the rigging, launching, etc. and spend the nights at our cottage just down the road.
The challenge is making a sharp ninety degree turn into our slip during a cross wind in an 20 ft.unballast centreboard sailboat with the five hp outboard mounted directly aft of the rudder (good forward, wanting reverse). Dock her in one shot and you look like a pro. Anything other that this makes for good neighbourhood entertainment. Grabbing our lines and fending us off is how we met a lovely couple with a Nonsuch 26 in the adjacent slip.
Late one day we headed down to the marina for an evening of drinks and socializing aboard Bluster and to enjoy the bustle of the marina and those pesky Canada geese.
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