Sailing with Israeli Youth

Two pleasant sails recently were with Israeli youth. Both of our nephews, Mendy, who readers of this blog met during the Club Cruise, and his older brother, Ariel, a veteran of the Israeli Army and now a student at Ariel university, attended the second sail.








 So did Cynthia

and her granddaughter, Shoshana.

The earlier sail date was with Cynthia and her other granddaughter, Shira.

The US and Israel were tied at the Olympics this year in the medal race in sailing competitions.  Neither nation won even so much as a single bronze medal (I refuse to verbify the noun “medal”, as the TV does), though both have won medals in sailing in the past.

On Shira’s day, the wind was rather light so a bit of swimming was enjoyed.  On Shosana's day , however, we started with less than the predicted light wind, but for most of the afternoon the wind was in the teens and we were able to furl the genoa, fly the small jib and visit deeply into Little Neck Bay, drive through the channel behind Stepping Stones and up through Hart Island Sound, and enter Manhassett Bay before beating back to the mooring.

I am pleased to report that all four of the youths, dual US and Israel citizens, seemed to pick up steering the boat quite well.