Been great to get the dinghy in the water a little bit more this summer, although I’m still put off by the amount of powerboats and jet-skis using the public slip in Lyttelton; never found the time to join up with Naval Point Yacht Club to use their slip. 
We towed the dinghy up to Golden Bay though for Christmas and it was great to sail off the beach again, like I have found memories of doing in the same type of dinghy in the West of Ireland when I was a lad!
R also signed up with Pleasant Point Yacht Club to do a week long Learn To Sail course in the January school holidays with some family friends. The training boats were a mix of Optimists and Firebugs, both plywood home-build simple construction dinghies. The course included membership and use of the boats for the rest of the season and he’s enjoyed a couple of events back there since.
