Saturday was the big Seattle Yacht Club “Opening Day” celebration. It isn’t as if we don’t boat in the winter, but opening day marks a kind of boundary between cold winter boating and warm summer boating around here.
I was out on opening day. But it was a different kind of opening day…the first day of Puget Sound shrimp season! I bought my license online Friday evening, went out on the Sound, and came home with 60 shrimp! To be honest, I had a LOT of help catching them, from my friends Tom and Susan.
They supplied the gear and did all the work; I mostly took pictures and played with Rose Point Coastal Explorer 2.0 beta while my dad drove my boat around.
There were a lot of boats out, including plenty of C-Dories, of course. Seems like the C-Dories congregate anytime more than one is out on the water.
Does this happen with other makes? Do the owners of other distinctive boats with loyal followings—Boston Whalers, Grady Whites, Parkers, or Sea Sports—alter course to intercept when they spot a sister ship?
By the way, if it doesn’t look to much like “summertime boating” to you, it’s because it was cold and rainy all day! Sunday was beautiful, though; I worked in the garden at home.
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Tasty shrimp! Yum, shrimp!