Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow ! ! ! ! ! !

SHIP'S LOG:

Well that settles that! I woke up this morning to a covering of snow on the ground. Boy, this was the last thing I wanted to see. I had hope, in my naivete, that by this time I would be sucking down the OJ and slathering on the sun screen. I guess that I missed that goal by just a little. Instead of being in Fort Lauderdale, a toasty brown, in shorts and tee-shirt, swimming in the morning, sailing in the afternoon, trying to decided between the Keys and the Bahamas, I am up in Connecticut, freezing, on the hard again, with no prospects of getting South before next Fall if ever. Yup, definitely missed that one by just a smidge!

Someone inquired about what exactly a Marine Unit was. Well, way back in this blog I shared the concept a friend of mine has that one would never spend the money necessary on a boat if you talked in real dollars. He developed and I adopted the concept of the Marine Unit. One marine Unit equals $500. It is a lot easier on one's psyche to spend only "2 Marine Units" on a repair or a piece of equipment than to spend $1,000! True, it is a silly ploy but it has probably saved many a boat owner from taking up golf. And so the haul out, storage and launching is costing 5 Marine Units. The Deductible is a little more that 3 Marine Units. The salvage operation a week ago Saturday was 11 Marine Units. And so on and so forth. Now you know why some boat owners take up piracy!

MASTER'S PERSONAL LOG:

Today was the first day that I really, REALLY felt like I want to climb back into that saddle once again. Perhaps it was the snow, but whatever it happened to be, i am inspired to begin again. It's not like I am starting from scratch, there are only a few things that need doing, but it is the desire to do them. If not for the cold and snow and the approximate 80 mile one way trip, I would be there today . . . that an the fact that it is 144 days before she will be launched. No need in getting hr all dressed up as she's got no place to go . . . . right now!