RADAR LOVE!!!!!

SHIP'S LOG:

Good News! I am not going to have to shell-out a couple of "Marine Units" to pay for new radar. The old unit, and I mean old (20 years at least), still works just fine. The guy at Dockside Electronics said it was an "entry level radar unit" something they don't make any more worked just fine and when I reinstalled it, he was right. True it can't make "toast" but as a radar unit, it worked just fine, even if in just black and white....or sort of a light blue-grey and a dark blue-grey. It worked which is the important part!!!!!

The wind was cranking so hard the other day that ABISHAG was heeling at the dock. Of course, had she been at a mooring, she would have just turned into the wind and never have really been impacted by it. However, she is tied to the dock and she heeled with the wind and didn't like it at all. She is really straining to get free and move and I can only say that I am thankful that her deck cleats are set as well as they are. They would pulled the deck out before they let go!

I am really hopeful that the weather will warm soon so I can start on the few projects that remain on the outside of the boat that have been put off by the weather. Also there are a few small ones that require the boat be commissioned before they can be tackled. To put it simply, they are projects that can be done only when the weather is sailing weather!!!!!

MASTER'S PERSONAL LOG:
I can sense a change in the weather. It is clear that the weather is warming though slowly. Hopefully the wind will die down as the weather warms and I can get to work on the boat. the best part is that there is little or nothing that can not be done while sailing the boat. ABSIHAG and I need to put some sea miles under out collective keel and get away from the land. I have been ashore too, too long and I just need that freedom and release that sailing brings. I can almost sense that ABISHAG feel the same. She doesn't rest well at the dock and wants to be moving. It is a strange thing to say and no one who doesn't sail would understand, but there comes a time when you need to "get to sea." I won't bother quoting John Masefield but there is an imperative that I feel respond to and the sooner I am able to follow it the better. My sister Sue and her husband Mike just got back from a recent trip to the Abacos and brought me all sorts of info on Green Turtle Cay. I really want to personally check it out to see exactly how accurate it is!!!!