Winter Begins Tomorrow!

SHIP'S LOG:

Winter will begin tomorrow sometime around noon. At 10AM, I will start up the engine and motor toward Mystic and the Mystic Shipyard and there ABISHAG will slip into a slip and the process of readying her for the winter will begin. I will also begin readying her for a visit by the brokers on Monday as she goes up for sale.And no, I still haven't quite come up with a selling price.

Skip and a friend will help me move the boat. Actually, it is just the last 20 feet or so of the journey where I could use some help. It is bad form, as well as a great expense, to run into the dock at the end of a slip. I wouldn't expect much damage to ABISHAG so much as I would expect to do some serious damage to the dock. She is rather overbuilt as this past year has made abundantly clear.

The day is expected to be mostly cloudy but at least we will (should?) avoid having to make the trip in the rain(snow?). It will be a sad day. I should be closing in on the land of eternal sunshine not still here in New England!

I learned that Bruce, who with a friend had intended to go down the ICW with me before everything went into the crapper, has put his own boat up for sail. I guess there is a lot of that going around these days. It makes a dreary time of the year even more so.