were you even aware of it?

August 4, 2007 at 11:27 am · Filed under a2, notices

besides picking blueberries in dexter, there’s something else you can do there on saturday mornings. you can go on a sailboat! for free!

there’s totally a lake there. and the university of michigan sailing club will take you out on that lake on a boat propelled by the wind!

here’s what you do: wake up relatively early on a saturday morning, take some aspirin for your hangover, drink some coffee, drive down the gravel road leading to the boat house(the gravel road is named strawberry lake road, although you will be going to baseline lake), get out of your car, find the guy with the list, and have him put your name on the list.

if you’re lucky, there will be a guy who reminds you of a kind marine drill sergeant on the shore teaching a bunch of you how to put the sails up on the boat and what all the different ropes and sails and parts are named. he will tell funny jokes and question why ropes are named sheets. you will break into teams of people and practice putting up and taking down the jib and the main sail.

then you’ll be taken out on a little two person boat and you’ll be taught to sail. after you’ve had a few lessons and paid your dues, you can take sailboats out whenever you like, it seems. (it’s probably not whenever, but it sure sounds like it’s pretty much whenever)

hot damn. ann arbor ain’t so bad.

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