In less than I week

I sailed my first Thistle on Wednesday. Oh my! Never sailed such a quick, responsive boat before. Almost no wind, probably 3-4 mph and we just zipped out. Even got to hoist the spinnaker. Wish I had a photo... I learned some new jargon "pinched" means too close to the wind and also I learned more about the tell tales. Which ever one is dancing, turn away from that one. Example: if the inside tell tale is dancing around, fall off the wind...

Got some great advise on Trailer Sailor Bulletin Board on creating a tiller tamer and tiller extension. Went to Fisheries Supply in Seattle. Is it me or do marine supply places treat women condescendingly? I wonder. It felt the same as when I used to go to computer parts places. Anyway, I found my i tems, came home and cut a golf club down to make a tiller extension and got it all ready to go on the boat.
Put my little boat on Craigslist (see photo) and immediately was swamped with emails. Sold it to the first person who looked at it. We went sailing from Leschi and he immediately was hooked. All I had to do was go get the trailer, bring it over to the Seattle side, drive the boat from Leschi to the Stan Sayre boat ramp, pull the boat up onto the trailer and away he would go. HA! First, I took so little gas in the gas can that the motor kept dying on the way. I must have restarted it 100 times....sorry little Seahorse. Then when we got the boat up on the trailer we noticed the left tire a little low. Upon inspection, it turned out the the bearing were COMPLETELY shot and the fellow who bought the boat simply pulled the entire wheel off the trailer. Thankfully he is a mechanic, who lived close by, had tools and even better a GREAT attitude. 3 hours later, two trips to the parts store and a lot of expertise on his part, complete new bearings on the trailer. We finally were able to unstep the mast and -for the last straw-his coupling was different from the trailer's-so we followed him home. So lucky both wheels didn't just completely separate from the trailer en route. He got a bit of a discount and I was extremely grateful. Wow. We came home exhausted and crashed at 3 p.m. (after a quick stop by the new boat to install the tiller extender and tamer and pull the rudder out of the water). What a day.
Lesson learned: bearings will corrode and go bad just sitting there. When they do, the whole wheel will come off. There's a type of cap for the bearings that allows you to grease them each time you use the trailer which keeps the above from happening. NAPA carries trailer bearing kits, Shucks DOES NOT.