The rattle and cough of the engine as it started was a rude interruption to a lazy afternoon spent lolling about before a dying breeze. After the warm sun and the water, Cassidy was ready for a long nap though she never napped and her watch insisted it was barely three o’clock.
Russell and his dad moved around in an easy fashion lowering and bundling sails. They hung rubber bumpers along one side. There was lots and lots of coiling and uncoiling of ropes to no purpose that she could quite understand. Sailboats made fixing her old VW Rabbit in college look easy.
Nutcase complained when shooed from her rope coil and showed her displeasure by going below with a flick of her tail and not a backward glance.
Julia sat beside her while the men fussed about. Despite the kerchief over her hair a
