I Don't Recall Seeing Purple Before! ! ! ! !

SHIP'S LOG:

      It was August today. Perhaps late July, but it was definitely mid-summer. The three "H's" were here early this morning as I brought ABISHAG into a slip. By the time I was through securing here, I was soaking wet with sweat ad it was only 6:30am!

     NOAA called for a sunny day(check!), little in the way of clouds (double check!!) high humidity(triple check!!!) and wind in the 10knts range! well, you can't be right all of the time. During most of the day, the wind was a zephyr, occasionally get up enough gumption t ripple the water. sad to say, it is not ABISHAG's element. It is one of those days you want a multi-hull or a small racing boat, something that will, as they say, "move when a moth farts in Montana!" At 11 tons, that ain't ABISHAG!

     Still in all, it was pleasant working on her in this weather. A tiny cool breeze wafting through the boat.  Then again, that should have been the warning. Hazy, hot, humid and cool breeze mean one thing in the summer, a nasty line squall, probably with thunder and lightning. And as sit here at 7:37pm, some really ugly, nasty black clouds are converging on New London and the rumble o thunder can be heard. The weather radar is showing a squall line of thunder storms heading our way and, since it is in color, it is almost beautiful . . . .  except for the purple! I can't remember the last time I saw purple in a color radar scan, but if I have seen it before, it certainly was not a good thing. Nor is it this time either.

     As these things go, one can not say exactly where this line of storms is going to hit except for the fact that unless it makes a really radical turn, we are going to get wet at TYC. Hopefully, we will be spared the "quarter size hail, . . . . the torrential downpour, . . . .  the 60mph winds," but one has to deal with what comes your way. That means extra lines for ABISHAG ad a nice and cozy spot in the clubhouse for me. Here's hoping it goes south pf us as it appears to be doing.