Lemony Zest :: Kim Lewandowski

Archive for August, 2005

to describe how I felt tonight watching the news about the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina. It’s just incredible that this storm grew so quickly and destroyed so much. Our thoughts are with those who survived.

The family that went sailing as Hurricane Katrina was coming ashore in Florida last week was found safe in Florida on Friday.

That and the fact that New Orleans is avoiding a direct hit are about the only good news about this monstrous hurricane.

We crewed on our friends Laura and Steve’s boat, the Laura J, in a race called the Barnacle Regatta on the Elizabeth River on Aug. 12, and again last night. This photo is from the start of the race on Aug. 12:

Some related links:

• Portsmouth Boat Club
• Barnacle Regatta
• Race Results

We made sixth place last night out of 10 boats that finished the race; 18 started it – I don’t know what happened to the others. Maybe they got couldn’t figure out the course :-/

… what people are thinking. With Hurricane Katrina bearing down, a family goes boating off of Florida’s Gulf Coast, and now – surprise – they’re missing. If I don’t sound sympathetic, it’s because many people in my family have been sailors for at least 30 years. My Uncle George sailed around the world; my mom and her husband, and my Aunt Betty and Uncle Ray sail (each couple in their own boat, of course) up and down the Intracoastal Waterway from Virginia to Florida almost every year; they generally wait till hurricane season is over to go, but during the summer they’re constantly sailing the Chesapeake Bay.

Someone asked my mom once what they do when a hurricane is coming. “We get out of the way,” she said. They certainly don’t go sailing for pleasure in its path!

I do hope they’re all okay. But people really need to understand that boats are *dangerous* and you need to learn about good seamanship as well as about how the boat works.

I came across this wonderful quote today:

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain ~

This is pretty funny: When the Graphic Artists Get Bored