SHIP'S LOG:
I don't know about where you are, but down here on the coast our 2+ feet is like a layer cake. The top couple of inches is ice, followed by succeeding alternate layers of fluffy snow, then ice, then fluffy snow, then ice, then fluffy snow . . . you get the idea.
Freeing my car was a trip, buried as it had been by the snow plow as well as by the drifting snow. It took a good hour to clear enough so that the P.O.S. - awful in anything by the warmest and driest of weather - could wriggle itself out of its grave. It is also brutally cold and will remain so over night, getting even colder.
To get past the cold and the snow and the howling wind, I went on all sorts of Caribbean sailboat charter sites just to get warm. Would that I had had the money, say Wednesday last, I would have been gone in a shot!!
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Blizzard INDEED! ! ! !
SHIP'S LOG:
Well, it appears that the boys and girls at NOAA got one right. Down here in New London, though the 60 mph wind gusts make it hard to be too accurate, we got a good 2 feet. From what is being reported, poor ABISHAG got hit with even more. And another 2 - 4 inches are due on Wednesday. Winter has shown up with a vengeance!
It is a good day to go boat shopping . . . . on the Internet and see what deals may be had. And deals to be had, there are plenty, and a lot more if you have money. Lots of "toys" are being dumped on the market, newer than ABISHAG and filled with all sorts of doodads that "everybody "wants these days, so I would think that she is unlikely to be sold any time soon . . . if ever. So if she survives the winter, and she should with ease being basically bullet-proof in construction, updating and spring maintenance will begin in a couple of weeks. . . . winter be damned!
Well, it appears that the boys and girls at NOAA got one right. Down here in New London, though the 60 mph wind gusts make it hard to be too accurate, we got a good 2 feet. From what is being reported, poor ABISHAG got hit with even more. And another 2 - 4 inches are due on Wednesday. Winter has shown up with a vengeance!
It is a good day to go boat shopping . . . . on the Internet and see what deals may be had. And deals to be had, there are plenty, and a lot more if you have money. Lots of "toys" are being dumped on the market, newer than ABISHAG and filled with all sorts of doodads that "everybody "wants these days, so I would think that she is unlikely to be sold any time soon . . . if ever. So if she survives the winter, and she should with ease being basically bullet-proof in construction, updating and spring maintenance will begin in a couple of weeks. . . . winter be damned!
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