When I was young we had a Mirror dinghy that we'd built at home from a kit. It had a mainsail and a jib, and a rudder with a tiller, but no spinnaker sail like some small boats have. You could remove the mast and spars and just use it as a rowboat. We took it to our cottage to sail it. We also took it to Cape Breton on a vacation.
Sailing is all a bit too complicated for me. I remember the teacher in school showing us different kinds of sailing ships on the blackboard. I understood that a catboat had just one sail, but more complicated stuff like sloops and schooners went over my head. I still find it a mystery how they shift sails and tack and catch the wind currents and cross whole oceans.
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