laser day

the laser has sat on the beach. it has sat on the beach in the same spot since i can remember, but today all that would change, jesse and i decided that on this day the laser would get some love. it laid there nearly in shambles  most of the rigging was lost or at best in the wrong place. after a few minutes of tinkering and finding odds and ends of rigging in the boat house she was up and ready to ride.  now even though the laser is a singlehanded racer jesse and i decided that we were going to team up and SQUEEZE onto it. it wasnt but a few minute later that we were back on the beach with a laser half way submerged. we had sunk it. we had forgotten a drain plug. we barely made it.   the boat weighed around 750 pound by the time  it hit land and it required the help of a winch to get it out of the water where we left it to drain.  after finding a plug we were back out, this time me in the laser and jesse on a cat, we raced out to the open water and i only capsized once! great wind. the laser lived again, if only for a moment in time.