SOON! SOON! SOON!

SHIP'S LOG:

Well, after a week in Maryland to take care of a little personal business, I have come back to find ABISHAG gone . . . . . but not far, just over to "A" Dock. She had to be moved as the owner/renter of the slip I was occupying finally showed up. Ah, such is life!

All the little dodas and thingamabobs have been corrected by the yard and she is ready to "go scudding along with a bone in her teeth." That is with the exception of the Wind/Speed Indicator. It seems that it has given up the ghost and can't be fixed. It needs to be replaced and that is something that is going to have to wait a good long while. Even though a new unit, transducer & cable can be had for a mere 1 1/2 Marine Units, I don't have them! Basically I am tapped out and if I want to be able to afford to sail, I'll have to go with what I have now. That may change in the future, especially if I hit the POWERBALL Lottery, but until it does, ABISHAG gets no new frills or further cosmetic surgery.

I will be bending on the sails (jib & main) and tuning the rig and ABISHAG will be good to go . . . to her new home on her new mooring over a TYC. . . . .this week! ! !! ! ! Well, that's progress!

MASTER'S PERSONAL LOG:

It is hard to believe that the time is finally here. I was beginning to think that it would never come, but it has, or I should say is, this week. I am excited about the shake down sails and planning for the future. There is a Rendezvous for Camper Nicholson Owners in Tenants Harbor, Maine, in August and I am planning to attend. As with all things to do with sailing and schedules, it is a tentative plan but it is a plan. Tentatively, Maine will be followed by a trip to Bermuda and from there to the Chesapeake where I will cruise awaiting the end of the Hurricane Season. Once November 1st rolls around, I will pick up my two(2) crew for the trip down the ICW. Beyond that, I'll just have to see what God has in mind. But whatever t might be, it will be "an adventure."