IT'S MARCH . . . BIG DEAL!!!!!

SHIP'S LOG:

I wish I could share that many new things have been done on ABISHAG but unfortunately such is not case. In fact, with the crappy weather of the last week or so, I haven't even gotten down to the boat. So things are unchanged and the most work I have done is create a new list of things to do in the Spring, along with coalescing the files I have put on my computer from various Sailing magazines and books. Along with become a stud at HO 229 and HO 249, that is what has occupied my time.

MASTER'S PERSONAL LOG:

I am chomping at the bit. I want to go sailing. Actually, right now I would settle for nice weather so I can commission the boat, live on it and get it ready to sail. Strangely, if I had made the trip "South," right now I would be beginning the planning for the trip back. Sometime in the next few weeks, I will be sailing if only a day at a time, but it will be sailing.

Another little something that I have to begin to plan for is that soon, exactly when I don't know, but soon I will have to vacate the slip in which ABISHAG currently resides and leave the Mystic Shipyard. To where exactly is the question. I can go back to TYC but I will have to set a mooring which will run 2 Marine Units, plus the 6 Marine Units I need to pay the sales tax on the boat and register her here in Connecticut. I may have the use of a mooring in Newport Harbor which would be something but I would also probably have to register ABISHAG in Rhode Island at several Marine Units (I'll have to check.)

Just the thought of getting back on the water is worth it all. And I can't wait!!!!!