Single ended lines, which control the main functions on Sesame Street, 33-foot Sonar sailboat used Wednesday, July 21, to take Courage Center volunteers and military veterans with physical challenges on a free, introductory sailboat ride on Wayzata Bay.
Bert Foster, Skipper of Team Captain Hook, and 44-time US Paralympic Sailing Team race competitor took his boat, a 33-foot Sonar, called, Sesame Street, and a crew of three out onto Wayzata Bay, Wednesday, July 21, as part of Operation Liberty, a Courage Center and Wayzata Community Sailing Center-sponsored evening of teaching, eating and enjoying a free ride and introduction to sailing on Lake Minnetonka.
Michele Goodsell rides front and center aboard Sesame Street, a 33-foot Sonar, Paralympic, three-person boat on Wayzata Bay with (clockwise from left) Carmella Foster, a Paralympic Bosun, her husband, Skipper Bert Forster, a 44-time Paralympic racer, and Jack Schmidt, 17, in his first summer as a Courage Center Volunteer.



Wednesday, July 21, 2011.  Goodsell, in her fourth year as a Courage Center volunteer, has a mild case of Cerebral Palsy.  Of the free sailboat ride on Lake Minnetonka on a hot summer evening, Goodsell says she, "Could be out here forever."
Michele Goodsell rides front and center aboard Sesame Street, a 33-foot Sonar, Paralympic, three-person boat on Wayzata Bay Wednesday, July 21, 2011.  Goodsell, in her fourth year as a Courage Center volunteer, has a mild case of Cerebral Palsy.  Of the free sailboat ride on Lake Minnetonka on a hot summer evening, Goodsell says she, "Could be out here forever."
Dallas Johnson aboard a sailboat at Wayzata Yacht Club before a regatta Saturday, Oct. 6.
Single ended lines, which control the main functions on Sesame Street, 33-foot Sonar sailboat used Wednesday, July 21, to take Courage Center volunteers and military veterans with physical challenges on a free, introductory sailboat ride on Wayzata Bay.
Single ended lines, which control the main functions on Sesame Street, 33-foot Sonar sailboat used Wednesday, July 21, to take Courage Center volunteers and military veterans with physical challenges on a free, introductory sailboat ride on Wayzata Bay.
Single ended lines, which control the main functions on Sesame Street, 33-foot Sonar sailboat used Wednesday, July 21, to take Courage Center volunteers and military veterans with physical challenges on a free, introductory sailboat ride on Wayzata Bay.
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