It's A Good Day! ! ! !

SHIP'S LOG:

     Even though the weather started out crappy, it has turned into a rather nice day. Hoping it would, I made a trek up to see ABISHAG. Truth be told, I wanted to d a little straightening up as the broker is going to go see her sometime soon and she did need at least a little bit of "pre-cleaning lady" cleaning.  It wasn't much, sort of "re-arranging the deck chairs on the TITANIC" sort of stuff and, anyway, it was nice to be on board on what turned out to be a nice day.

    I wasn't the only person with what friend John Plante refers to as "flange foot." This particular malady afflicts boat owners who stay to long off their craft and can only be cure, if only temporarily, by contact with fiberglass of the marine variety. Another lost soul was on his boat across the yard and he stopped by as I was getting off. He started asking all sorts of questions about how I liked the center-cockpit style vs the aft cockpit style and about ABISHAG in particular. So I gave him the Cook's Tour and found out that even though he has a nice Hunter Cherubini 33, he is looking to move up! Now before you get too excited, I doubt that he is a candidate to purchase ABISHAG though he is looking at a Bristol 41 currently. He is at least a year away from make a move  . . .  though he did buy his current craft totally on the spur of the moment.  It would be nice though, so to keep the pot boiling, I told him if he ever wanted to go out for a sail on "a center-cockpit," to stop by TYC and  we'll go for a spin. He keep his boat over in Noank and knows several TYC members and seemed interested in the offer.  Maybe, maybe not. I'll just wait and see.