Sailing! Sailing!

SHIP'S LOG:

The last couple of days I had the opportunity to go sailing with different people on their boats. It is an interesting as well as an enjouable experience.  They were all so very different from ABISHAG in both size and type. It creates a "different" sailing experience.


Yesterday for example, I went out sailing with Fred and his son, Alex, on a Catalina 30 . . . in some rather serious wind. We never really got out into the Sound and spent most of or time sailing under main alone. Like I said, some serious wind. And to keep things from getting too boring, the boat's engine crapped out, we had to deal with a submarine off EB, there is no launch service, had to pick up the mooring under sail, and we even made an "emergency" trip to another boat to tie down a main sheet that bad come loose causing the boom to swing back and forth radically. It was a great day!

I heard back from Capt. Fatty Goodlander. He is a columnist for CRUISING WORLD  magazine and had been living on his boat with his wife, Carolyn, for the past 40 years or so and writes columns for the magazine about his experiences. His daughter got married a couple of years ago and now has a child and the Goodlanders were looking for another boat with enough room for everyone. They were looking for a "gently used" boat for around $50,000 and so I offered to sell them ABISHAG. I got an email back this morning saying that unfortunately they had already purchased their new boat. As they say, timing is everything in life!"