Come Sail With Us

Most of this page concerns our Friday sailing trip on Lake Travis. But first, on Thursday, we met Erika Zettl for lunch. Tony Zettl was a colleague of mine at N.I.U. in the math department.

I couldn't picture her since she was a little girl when I last saw her. But after I met her now, I clearly remembered her from then. She's now living in Austin and emailed us while on our trip.

Welcome to Lake Travis. This is a very long serpentine lake just west of Austin which was formed by a dam at the bottom of this map.

Brett was a merchant marine for much of his young life and traveled the world in that capacity. Now he owns a small sailboat that holds at most four persons. He took Dustan, Jenelle and Ruth first and then Elaine, Ruth and me. Here are the pictures and the story.

Getting the boat ready to sail.

This was more complicated then I ever believed. Comparable

Everybody pitched in.

to getting ready for a rock climb -- in my graduate school days.


This . . . .	. . . and that . . .	and they are off; Brett, Ruth and the kids.

The camera below points to the lake. You can use the url http://www.austinyachtclub.org/WX/cam.htm to see the lake in real time and even adjust the direction it is pointing. From that page, Click Video Cam, then Advanced: Camera Control.