Beautiful row in Marjorie D this morning, just a bit of mist on the lake and lovely sunshine. Today, we expand the fleet, and launch Peggy.

Peggy was supposed to be launched on Randy's birthday, but Hurricane Irene was on the way, so we postponed the launch, and went on with the party.

The sailloft. We cut down an old Nancy Dawson sail to fit (there's rather a lot of those, stored in my sister's barn). The jib is so tiny, it seems hardly worth it. Tacking takes 2 seconds. Cute.

We got a load of the price of oars, and Randy decided to make them ($15 bucks, and a lot of shavings and sawdust).

Rigged and ready in the driveway. Cars were slowing down to look. Not many cars, but a few.

In the water, rowing to the dock at Scott and Donnalee's.

Christening "Peggy" with rye, my grandmother Peggy's favourite drink...

And away we go.