Leigh pulled his kids and Leilani on surfboards and boogie boards behind his zodiac. They had great fun.
Visiting the Hikianalia, one of Hawai’i’s voyaging canoes (they navigate by the stars, sky, and currents).
The galley (kitchen):
Leilani goes to sailing club almost every Friday and is getting better at sailing. One Friday, Andy volunteered to help the instructor in the motor boat to keep an eye on the kids, and he got some photos too:
Shortest race ever in the history of sailing, and Leilani won it!
Here’s the explanation: Some of the children were going to races on Oahu the following week, so the children were practicing starting and racing. In sailboat racing, they announce 3 minutes, 2 minutes, 1 minute, 30 seconds, 10 seconds before the starting horn of the race. Part of the race is to get your boat going in the right direction, across the start line but not cross before the horn, with all boats jockeying for position in the small space. In this case, the start line and finish line is between the instructor boat where I took the picture and the big green buoy. The race course was to go left 100 yards (~100m) to the little orange buoy, turn around it and sail back to the start/finish line. The orange buoy had a rope and a weight on it, but not long enough to touch the bottom, so it kept drifting toward the start line over the course of several races. By the time this race got going, the buoy was only a few feet from the line, so the race was only about 20 feet long. Because we were practicing the starting, it didn’t really matter. Leilani and her partner were in the right position at the start, did their turn around the buoy and crossed the finish line, all before any of the other boats had gotten into position across the start line. So maybe next year, Leilani will be able to go race sailboats on Oahu…
