It Be Winter . . Officially! ! !

SHIP'S LOG:

     Yes, despite what the calendar says or what the temperature is reading, it is officially winter.  It is so because I spent the morning wrapping ABISHAG up nice and tight for the coming blizzards. It seemed rather strange taking out all the stuff I just put aboard a few months ago, stuff I never got use. it is more than a slight bit depressing but it also means that we are one day closer to launching in the spring!  And I will be in before Memorial Day!

     When friend Fred and I were dismantling the furling gear last week, I found a fitting that is used attached the forestay to the stemhead (the wire on the front of of the mast which holds it up to a fitting on the pointy end of the boat) cut almost all the way through.  There are two possibilities. #1, the yard workers did it when the were getting the tree and the boom from the other boat off of the bow of my boat; or #2 some low-life, mouth-breathing, cousin-marrying son-of-a-bitch had climbed up on ABISHAG and was trying to make off with the furling gear and got interrupted. Not a pleasant though in either case.

     Tomorrow I will be headed off for surgery on my left ankle. I am not looking forward to it as everything I have heard indicates that it is a painful procedure and that the therapy is no piece of cake either. Everyone I have talked to who has had a similar procedure has indicate most vociferously that they would opt for multiple root canals done anally sans anesthetic. Thank goodness the "hermitage" is not much larger than my boat. It will make getting around easier.