except for the rain. You'll usually never hear a Texan (or this one, anyways) complain that it rained a bit. But rain it did, and cut the sailing short. This week I was aboard a Melges 24, a very fast boat that can get you very wet. The 2 coolest things were the foresails: a furling jib (a front sail that kind of winds itself up when you're not using it) and an asymmetric spinnaker (the big colorful sail that one uses when sailing downwind). The spinnaker was attached to a bowsprit (a spar that sticks out straight ahead from the bow, like the nose on a sword fish) that was retracted, and shot out of the "nose" of the boat when you needed it. It looked like something an evil mastermind would come up with. No pictures of it, but here's some more boats on the water. I know ya'll are getting tired of those, but I never will.
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