MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND - THE START OF SUMMER

SHIP'S LOG:

Safe and Sound and still at the Dock! Hey, it is a step up from last Memorial Day Weekend! True, it would be better to be over in New London at TYC, but the mooring isn't set yet and I am still waiting on the yard which is waiting on a supplier for an oil filter for the engine. Aside from that, anything that really needs to be done and everything else can be done on the can.

I am coming to the conclusion that in this yard, most people own big sailboats and that most of the owners have little or no idea what to do with them or how to handle them. Two rather large craft nearly rammed each other as they backed out of slips that were opposite each other. One "captain" at least realized that boats don't have brakes. Had this realization not have dawned on him there surely would have been a "little trading of paint," as they say in NASCAR! I have to admit that I am not sure exactly how the boating "Rules of the Road" applied in that particular situation, but you would think that common sense and common courtesy would apply. Unfortunately, people who really don't "bond" with their boats tend to "drive" them like cars and when you have a holiday weekend, you also have a multiplicity of such people on the water. It makes for some rather interesting "encounters". The mouth of the Thames on a holiday is something akin to I-95 going through New Haven if you lane lines and the traffic separation barriers. And while the Mystic River doesn't have quite the traffic, it is small and narrow and crazy in its own way.

Two people, with their boats attached firmly to the dock, had people fall off their boats into the water. True it is easily in the season and people may not have their sea legs yet, but it is scary that they would do so while the crafts are still attached securely to the dock. Happy Memorial Day Weekend! ! ! ! !

MASTER'S PERSONAL LOG:

It is irritating that I am still in Mystic. As I have said before, it is tough surrendering control. Waiting on other people who are waiting on other people before you can do something is terribly frustrating, but why eat myself of over something I have no control over. It is coming and it will be here eventually and I will enjoy it when it gets here.