8.7- Optimists and a Sunfish

The Optimist fleet has been busy for the past couple of months teaching kids how to sail.

The Optimist dinghies are featured in two previous posts, one of the naming ceremony and blessing of the Optimists on June 1, and then two pictures of the boats sailing, taken from shore on June 9.

Today I rode up the bridge over Smith Creek to get some better views as the Optimists launched from next to the Town kayak dock, sailed around a couple of buoys in Smith Creek, then proceeded under the bridge and out towards the Neuse river.

Today they were joined by a Sunfish (green striped sail)... from what I could hear from the bridge, the man in the Sunfish was also learning to sail, alongside the youths in the Optimists. Instructors were in the inflatable dinghies with outboard motors.

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