We went to the Canandaigua Yacht Club today and set up one of our boats.

A busy weekend is planned next week at the club where they rent a huge crane to lower all of the larger boats into the water, and we have to keep clear, so we could only get one set up today. The other is lonely up on the hill behind the club. We’ll get it in the water in a couple of weeks.

The 2.4mR did draw a lot of attention from the folks there setting up their big boats.

We managed to squeeze in to use the lift to get the boat off of our trailer while the guys were out on the lake working to set the mooring buoys for the summer.

We met a lot of nice people.

One of them said, “Ya’ll don’t look handicapped”.

I’m sure we will get that a lot. The 2.4mR is the current official boat for singlehanded racing for disabled sailors because within the class rules, they can substantially modify it for their disabilities as long as it doesn’t break the 2.4mR rule and they can measure equally with the other class-legal boats.

Our goal is to get a few more people educated about how great these boats are and get them out on the water in their very own International 2.4 Meter!

We’re going sailing tomorrow. Check back for the full story on our first adventure on the water!