Saturday afternoon I got a surprise text message from the captain of the schooner Lavengro asking if we’d like to go for a sail. Uhm, yeah! So we jumped off the highway and headed down to the Metro dock and had an awesome afternoon. Drinks, snacks, guitars, great wind, and good friends.
Lavengro was built in 1927. She’s been a fishing boat, a military training vessel, a charter, a private residence, and the victim of neglect. Now as a charge of the Northwest Schooner Society she is a non-profit used for education and charters.
We’ve done a little work helping with the restoration, and the crew are quickly becoming some of our dearest friends. We’ve been totally unskilled labor, but the crew have been gracious in sharing their extensive knowledge, and trading us sailing time for sweat.
Lavengro is meant to be a community-building project; so, if you want to learn about sailing, or just learn about restoring an old boat, get in touch and get involved. They give free sails every Sunday from the Center for Wooden Boats. Come aboard, lend a hand, make some great new friends, and have a blast doing it all on the waters around Seattle.
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