It Is Almost The End

SHIP'S LOG:

ABISHAG is all set to make the trip to Mystic to get hauled. The weather for the rest of the week is supposed to be less than perfect so it will probably be over the weekend. A couple of angels have come through and the cost will be covered making that concern not so much of a concern. When I get over to Mystic, after she is hauled and washed and blocked, I will stroll over to the Mystic Shipyard Brokers and put her up for sale. I think I am OK with it but then nothing has happened yet. It will probably be a whole different thing once the papers are signed and she goes on the block. Sometimes you just have to do tough things.

I have decide to write an article about this whole situation and shop it around to a bunch of sailing/boating/cruising magazines and see if any one of them may be willing to publish it. Writing the article will be a very good, cathartic process and, if it is published, I will actually get a little financial compensation to boot. No down side here. I have already come up with a tentative title, " A Dream Deferred." If I can't get it, I'll post it here.

MASTER'S PERSONAL LOG:

I am a peace with the possibility of ABISHAG being sold. If things go well, there can be two scenarios: one she sells and one she doesn't. If she sells at a fair price, I'm out of debt and some money goes back into my retirement account. Of course, I could always forgo the retirement account and buy another, smaller, less expensive boat but probably not. Then again, you never know.

Of course, she might not sell as I might not be offered a fair price. Right now there are a lot, and I mean a LOT, of boats on the block. She is 32 years old; she is an uncommon boat for this side of the Atlantic being an English boat( at best guess, there are only four in the US); while sound and solid, she still needs some work to make her "Bristol." There is always the possibility that the condo will at last be sold and that would probably make it unnecessary to let her go. It may happen and it may not. I'll just deal with what comes. After all, she is really just a symbol and if growth, the maturity, the "taking control of my life" which she represents takes place, she will no longer be "absolutely" necessary. . . . . Still, I would like to make the sailing journey.