My good buddy Chad came for a visit from Kansas City with his girlfriend. She had never been sailing before so we took her out to get the experience. She loved every minute of it, even when we were over 30 degrees with the rail in the water.

Billabong has a huge sail locker. I was pulling stuff out a couple months ago and found a compact blue sail bag. To my surprise there was an asymmetrical sail all ready to fly inside of it! Went out with my buddy David and we tossed it up to see how she was. Sail is

Today I finally took my first cruise on Billabong! It was a small shakedown cruise from Shilshole Marina to the Eagle Harbor Public Park dock on Bainbridge Island. Took a couple good friends along as well as a new friend Jesse that I met right before he got on the boat. Motor fired up beautifully