11-18.

Went down to the lighthouse on a windy day.  When we got there, the tide was very low, so low with the north wind blowing all the water out into the gulf that we had to wait an hour for the tide to come in a little before we were able to launch the boats and make it out the canal.  Even so, rowing was more of polling in the mud, but we didn't run aground anywhere.  Once we made it into the bay, we spotted Walt on his boat (above left, Oystercatcher (Daddy's Drascombe) on right).  

The top two pictures of the Swan: rowed out past the shipwreck before raising sail, then didn't pull the sail far enough up/pull the downhaul down tight enough at first and had a huge wrinkle in the sail.  Fixed that after we cleared the channel and oyster bars.  

Walt has a spinnaker - looks like fun!  Walt's boat (Joan of Arc I believe she's called) is a Francois Vivier design that Walt built.  (Walt also built the mast for my boat).

And headed back to the ramp.  Finally a day with good, consistent wind - something we're not too accustomed to, but thankful for when it happens.  More cold fronts, please!

Fortunately there is no photographic evidence of it, but I guess I'll fess up here - Karl and I managed to ram the Drascombe and break the mizzen spar.  whoops!  We were following along and tacked after the Drascombe had tacked, but while our tack went smoothly and successfully, Daddy's boat stalled and we ended up heading straight at them at ramming speed.  I let the sail out to try to slow us down and Karl steered away, and just when we thought we would clear them, our bow caught the tip of the spar, cracking the butt end inside the stern.  Upon inspecting the damage, should be a simple fix.  No harm done to the Swan.