Sailing With The Game Night Group

Lene and I belong to a Game Night Group. we meet in each others homes perhaps once every couple of months. We'd meet more often but its tough to coordinate peoples schedules! We eat talk and well....  play games. This has been going on for perhaps ten years now.  Games include anagrams, charades, fictionary, electronic versions played on a wide screen TV, trivial pursuit, card games, truth telling, and even once a jig saw puzzle contest. In my mind, the games are the least of our fellowship but I play along with the games part. We have gone through each other's life cycle events together and when I had my craniotomy, the gamers visited me in the hospital.  That's when it dawned upon he how important they are in my life.

And they have sailed on ILENE about once a season. Indeed, Ricky and Bruce were part of ILENE's crew on her voyage from Baltimore to the Harlem YC in 2006. And they and Joel and I have a men's division, with Bruce, which gets together for a dinner out a few times a year.

Only seven of us were aboard for this day sail. We got underway at about 1:30 and were back on the mooring at about 6:30, having noshed so extensively that we decided not to have dinner together after all. The wind was strong from the east at first so we headed into Little Neck Bay and made speed of up to 7.5 knots with full main and small jib. This was the exciting part of the trip and Ellen was able to learn how to steer. Then the wind moderated and came from the south so we went east, almost to Execution Rocks, then to the Long Island side of the Throggs Neck Bridge, back to Hart Island and back to the mooring, with Auto doing most of the steering. A quiet peaceful day of making grooves in the water.
From left to right: Ricky, Joel, Linda, Ellen, Lene and Rudy.