Last weekend we headed over to East Bay on Gambier Island. We met up with Vince and Laura on Merganser and the kids spent their first night at anchor.

Here they are hanging out in the cockpit with their dad.

And waving (okay, not waving, but at least looking) goodbye as I paddle off in the kayak.

Also, one nice feature of Sonrisa is that there’s a lip around the inside of the cockpit. A while ago we made boards that sit on this lip and fill in the cockpit to make one large surface. The idea was that we would sleep out there in nice weather, but we haven’t done this much since nice weather often equals heavy dew around here. It turns out though that the cockpit in this configuration is a great playpen.

(and also a pretty good place to fall asleep after some serious playing)