6.01- Optimists Named and Blessed

The new fleet of 11 "Optimist" class sailing dinghies, all funded by donations and handmade with volunteer local craftsworkers, stand ready for training the 7-15 year old sailors of tomorrow. The "Bow-to-Stern Sailing School’s Youth Sailing Camps" will begin teaching kids to sail on June 9.

Captain Larry, in full summer whites, presided over the naming ceremony, at which "libations" (club soda) were doused on all the new Optimists.

Today's Dinghy Dock shot is taken from video... capturing lightning strikes with still pictures proved too difficult. The lightning strike is somewhere across the Neuse river, and it is not hitting that boat in the harbor:



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