Eli ArrivesWe're still on hold up here, on the boat on Long Island. The big, slow weather system that is plaguing us East Coast sailors with fog and wind and rain is hanging over the boat like a personal grudge.
The great news, though, was that yesterday, my son Eli, a yacht captain out in San Diego, showed up on the dock here--complete surprise. Hadn't seen him since last November when I sailed to Mexico with him on his boat. Wonderful stuff.
This morning we got up at 5:00, had our coffee and breakfast, got our foul weather gear on and went out to finish up the final chores. Then it really started raining (cats and dogs, dogs and cats) and we came back down below, took off our foulies, and are now sitting here waiting for the promised fair-weather change that should arrive this afternoon. Johnny finished setting up the GPS for our first leg, and Eli got on the weather radar, and I'm writing this--in short, killing some time.
We're scoping out the forecast and hoping (against hope), that this muck breaks up and blows away. We do plan on getting underway this afternoon for the first anchorage near Orient Point on the tip of the north fork of Long Island.
The great news, though, was that yesterday, my son Eli, a yacht captain out in San Diego, showed up on the dock here--complete surprise. Hadn't seen him since last November when I sailed to Mexico with him on his boat. Wonderful stuff.
This morning we got up at 5:00, had our coffee and breakfast, got our foul weather gear on and went out to finish up the final chores. Then it really started raining (cats and dogs, dogs and cats) and we came back down below, took off our foulies, and are now sitting here waiting for the promised fair-weather change that should arrive this afternoon. Johnny finished setting up the GPS for our first leg, and Eli got on the weather radar, and I'm writing this--in short, killing some time.
We're scoping out the forecast and hoping (against hope), that this muck breaks up and blows away. We do plan on getting underway this afternoon for the first anchorage near Orient Point on the tip of the north fork of Long Island.
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