Good Things Come To Those Who Wait!

SHIP'S LOG:

After about a week or waiting, give or take 9 months, my niece and her husband are delivered of their first child, Alexia Grace - if the reports be true. Somehow, everyone seems to have expected this wondrous event a week earlier, but as mother & child are happy and healthy and dad can begin to breathe again, all the rest of us can relax too and make plans to spoil the little girl outrageously! Congratulations Nicole, we all knew you had it in you!(pun intended!)

Waiting also produced some decent weather for a change and that mean that some work on ABISHAG could go forward. High humidity and actual rain impaired a lot of what I wanted to do. But after a fog so thick I could barely see the bow of the boat Saturday night, Sunday became a nice sunny day which allowed for the popping out of a port in the aft cabin and re-begging it so as to stop the leak that was too close to my head for comfort in the rain. I did not test the repair as it required "RAIN" and there has been much to much of that since my return. I can wait a few weeks before becoming disappointed.

I still have been unable to find someone who can repair the broken stanchion with a weld. Actually, I could but no one I can afford and/or who would come to TYC to do it. As the Bard would say, "Aye, there's the rub." It will get done as all good things come to those who wait. Besides, there are a host of other projects that can easily occupy mind time and attention . . .if I should let them.

It seems as though the summer is finally getting here though the days have begun to get shorter. Did you notice? The weather seems to have warmed sufficiently, when it isn't raining, to be called summer. Racing is underway at TYC, as is the sail training program for kids, and most of the boats are back in the water and the picnics and parties have gotten off the ground, so i guess it is summer after all up here. For me, summer has been going on since about the 5th of January so it is a little hard to tell really, but I guess that this is it it. I intend to enjoy it.