I WAS AFRAID OF THIS!!!!

SHIP'S LOG:

No change in the boat since the last post. Hopefully today the electrician will be finishing his work and it will all be done by the end of business Wednesday.

MASTER'S PERSONAL LOG:

I was afraid that this was going to happen, both the weather and my health have gone into the crapper! Since Friday the weather has been in the low 30's and there has been snow and freezing rain on and off. It really hasn't been conducive to hauling stuff down to the boat and finding places to stow it. For those of you who have not walked down a cock in the winter, nothing ices up quite like it. You get that constant coating from the wind-whipped-water, so even if the yard did ice removal, their efforts would be thwarted before they were finished. And as difficult as it can be going down a main dock, the finger docks (those along side the boat) are even more fun, being narrower and often floating ( they move with the movement of the water). Trudging down such a structure with an armful of stuff and expecting to get it all safely on the boat( and yourself as well) is to be foolishly optimistic in the extreme. Adding insult to injury, I have come down with the first cold of the season. Nothing serious, just one of those 24-to-48 hour-fever-&-chills-two-exits-no-waiting type that is guaranteed to just make you feel miserable. What is frustrating is that this was the very thing I was trying to avoid by heading south. I had hoped that I has seen my last snow (fat chance), my last ice (except in a glass full of rum) and had my last cold/flu season. Had everything gone the way I had planned, I would have seen my first "Green Flash" by now, but we all know about "having a plan." Hopefully, both the boat and I will be up to speed by mid-week and, with a break from Mother Nature, heading south this coming weekend.