I'm Going To Take It As A Good Sign

SHIP'S LOG:



Today in the mail I received a copy of Cruising World magazine, on the cover of which was a 53 Friendship just sailing along on a beautiful day. In the mail today I also received a copy of SAIL magazine and on the cover was a Swan 48 heralding the lead story of "How You Too Can Join The Caribbean Racing Scene." In the mail I also received a promotional package from Pond Bay on the island of St. John in the American Virgin Islands, touting a wonderful assortment of luxury cottages and palatial villas available for time share. I also received an email from Michael Harris of the Catamaran Company offering a truly insane deal on a 35 foot Island Spirit Catamaran. Tonight the temperature is supposed to drop like the rock again and I gather there is the possibility of more snow by Wednesday.

AH, but I am one day closer to launching. Actually it is 99 days and counting down. The mist around the mystery that is electricity is beginning to lift and that in the next few days it will all become clear, at least enough to know what I don't know. I am really chomping at the bit to get started but with the weather hovering around ZERO!!!!, and possibly less inside the boat, that is not going to happen, at least not for a week or two. It doesn't matter when, I will be ready!!!! I've got the work list all planned out ( it keeps growing with unnecessary but really neat projects). Hopefully, I will even have enough MUs to pay for the truly, absolutely necessary stuff - like bottom paint (approx. $218) - and perhaps have a few leftover for other , not necessary but would-be-nice-to-have items. In any event, I can't wait to start.







At another time, such an array of such items would have