summers sailing sunfish

Cut-paper collage postcard created for scrapiteria weekly challenge: "Summer."

I'm afraid this one is pretty corny. But hey--sometimes life is corny. Especially my many joyful summers sailing Sunfish up & down the Gulf Coast of Texas--in bays, behind barrier islands, and yes, even venturing out into the ocean itself.

The poem is John Masefield's well-known "Sea Fever" (1901). (I dickered a bit with the third line to adapt it to sailing Sunfish.) The map is a 1943 Texas Transportation Map of the area around Matagorda Island: you can see part of the Aransas Wildlife Refuge (orange-y color)--the summer breeding grounds of America's largest bird, the whooping crane.

Some people think of the Sunfish as a toy, but for me, it's always been a serious sailboat. I've logged so many hours of my life in Sunfish, I could say a lot about them...but I won't. Just read the poem: every word of it is true.