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Our Cousin Jonba and his friends came down from Provo to celebrate being out of school for the summer. We got the old Sailboat fixed up and took it out to Sand Hollow for an eventful day of sailing on the lake. We met some fellow sailors and joined Hobie Fleet 941 St. George Yacht Club! The day ended with a large scale rescue of Jonba and friend trying to swim from the rocks to the shore and the Suttner kids who capsized in our canoes that we let them borrow. We had to get the Coast Gaurd rangers, a kayaker, a swimmer without a life jacket that we thought had drowned trying to help, a jet skiier, a speed boat that had opened its plugs and started taking on water and almost went down, Dan and Andrew in a canoe that flipped over twice and me screaming from the dock for people to help! The wind came up suddenly and the waves turned to white caps and yes, after 1 1/2 hours we finally got everyone off the water safely! Always respect the water!
After fishing all of the Suttner family and friends out of the water we loaded them up and the crazy kids talked their mom into dropping them off to float the raging Virgin River. They lost two of our canoes in the river and nearly drowned a few kids but once again they all survived! We hope a few lessons were learned today.
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