Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

SHIP'S LOG:

In that the triptophan(sp?) has hit big time (that's the stuff in turkey that causes you to go to sleep), I must presume that ABISHAG is say and sound and in fine fettle to begin again our journey south on the morrow. True, I won't know until i get down to Branford tomorrow, but I have no reason to expect that anything untoward has happen that would render unsuitable for the journey ahead. If she is above water, we're going!!!!

If all things fall together as I hope, somewhere between 8 and 8:30AM I shall be away from the slip and on down the Sound toward Little Bay on Long Island next to the Throggs Neck Bridge. At the very least, I am planning to pass New Haven and that breakwater!

Friend Ken will get me down to the boat after I drop my car at Ray's and probably stand at the dock and wave goodbye or make some other appropriately friendly gesture of good voyage. The weather will be less than perfect and a whole lot better than terrible, but there should be no snow. As it is commonly stated by my brethren, "Any day you don't have to shovel is a good day!" so it should be a good day.

MASTER'S PERSONAL LOG:

I hope I am able to get some sleep tonight. I hope I don't forget anything, at least nothing important. As the chinese like to say, "The journey of a thouand miles begins with a single." But as I have discovered already, you got to watch that first step!!!!