Here are some shots from the sailboat race to FIFTY POINT, a former 'malarial swamp' and current nature preserve/boat marina. My hosts, Jim and Rolly, were sailing the catboat BOO KNOWS whose sail and 'wishbone' you see here. Catboats allow the skipper to sit in the rear of the boat and control the sail with ropes, rather like a marionette string but not exactly. My function was to stay out of the way and avoid falling overboard.
It's been a very exciting couple of weeks, but the upshot of the deal is that there was a visit from an old friend, a visit from another one is taking place tomorrow, and I got approved for the Canadian equivalent of a green card! And oh yes, Gizmo had her first bath. All of these events except the bath were enjoyable--even though Gizmo now smells a bit more perfumed than usual. I will try to update this site a bit more regularly now that I'm going fulltime onto the book in two weeks' time...so thank you, gentle reader (all one of you) and enjoy the pictures!
4 comments:
It was a good job that you were in that role, as it I had been there I would have gotten in the way as well as fallen overboard. Hope the book is going well.
Hi Wood Mouse,
Oh, you'd have sat quietly in the corner out of the way exactly as I did. Now, the winning boat was the same one I was on the week before...and there was NO room when we WEREN'T racing, so I wasn't needed for ballast on that particular day!
This Mouse would have been far to excited to sit quietly, and I would have been doing my (ab)normal thing of acting like a jumping jack, getting every ones way while taking pictures etc. That's my way of going overboard while on deck, as for going overboard; Do the make a life jacket to fit a Wood Mouse?
Absolutely. The skipper was very thorough and made sure that one of the life jackets was ready for me in the extremely unlikely event that the boat turned over. There was plenty of room to jump around if you were so inclined.
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