I was invited by my friends over at  “Sacred of the Water” to go for a sail on their new Sailing Vessel Oli Kai. They had been looking for a CAT for a L- O-N-G  T-I-M-E they finally found one in budget and the other stuff one needs to make the leap. Yay! A bunch of happy boaters. At first the plan was to take the family on a world trip to Okinawa, where the “M-chan” could do her graduate paper and is the home place of her Oka-san. I think that plan is still there but moved to after the Sea of Cortez or something. Anyway. They found their boat, whooohoo, Yay!!

I was invited to go out on the bay for a little wind and water action. This was my first CAT ride, so I was up for Catting around for the afternoon. heheheha get it catting around… ok, never mind. I digress. There was not much wind, so the going was slow, but still enjoyable to get a sense the boat in light air. Toward the end of the sail the wind picked up and I got to get a better feel for the Speed of a CaT under sail.

A different feel, motion of the boat. Takes a little getting used to at slow speed, but once the wind got her sails full, she shined. One could enjoy cooking on the sea with no heel, or doing whatever with no heel. One still got the bounce, but no heel was kind of cool. I could go for a CAT.. A small one , like 28 or 29 ft. perfect.

There is the dark side of course to everything. Docking space, Haul out and bottom cost ( you have two ), if it ever flips, your toast, soggy toast at that (^_^)

On the other hand, if you are single It would be a chick magnet, most females love that no heel thing.  It is also easy to move around on deck and do stuff. Another thing it is nice to set in the salon and have a good view of what is going on around you. No running up stairs from dinner to look around…In the rain.

Speaking of rain, it rain whilst we were out, It was cool though, I had my foul weather gear and got to try it out on a boat in foul  ( ok just a light shower really) weather instead of walking to the Post office in a typhoon. It was a good investment. It was kind of fun sailing in the rain… warm( fairly) and dry. I need to invest in a pair of foul weather bibs for LZ. The Blue pelican has some but not in her size, I have to wait and keep and eye out. Which is ok, since I do not have the money for some anyway. See how good the Universe is watching out for me… sweet (^_^)

Was that a major Digression or what.

Anyway, stay turned for another adventure with the Okinacubano clan in the future. mata ne!

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