Today, for the first time in just under 5 years I sailed a sailboat. `Twas a good day.

A few weeks back I decided that I'm going to make getting out on the water a priority for me this summer. I'm hoping to sail a boat from Long Beach to Catalina at least once this summer, hopefully at least once a month.

I don't know if I'll be able to get everything together by the end of summer, but ever since September of 2006 I've been planning on having a chatters meet / campout at one of the coves there.

In case you're sharp and got your math right, yes you're correct, that's before the chatters group ever existed. A little known fact is that the whole group's existence and early management was based specifically on planning for a Catalina campout being that group's annual meet. Unfortunately life got in the way and I wasn't able to finalize the logistics of it. But that's my (admittedly optimistic) goal, to have a campout there by the end of summer. Certainly by the summer next year.