Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Hanging out on the Hudson

A lot of folks think that sailing away means sailing away from work.

I mentioned this to our community sailing crew last night and we all laughed. Really, sailing means constantly fixing your boat in exotic places. Every one of us in this mini flotilla has a system of tracking work on the boat. Some spend three hours each day in the morning, some all day off and on, some at night. We are still working on our system but today we tried to establish a routine.

Kids do school from about 8 or 8:30 to noon, then break and do their chores.

Scott does various jobs. I do cooking, cleaning, teaching and banking and help Scott out in the morning. That's the deal for days we aren't travelling.

Otherwise, it's breakfast by 7 or 7:30 or on the water later if we need an early morning start to catch a tidal boost. Lisa drives while Scott does some route planning. Lisa checks his work and we go back and forth all day with that routine.

We usually put off cleaning up the galley until just before we arrive somewhere or just after, depends on the day.

It's so great to get our mast back up. Messenger is starting to look like herself.

There were three of us yesterday who put our masts up: My Tumbleweed from Windsor with a singlehander on board, Paul, then us on Messenger and then Klaus and Barbara on Klabara from Toronto. Brian and Kathy Marsh stopped in to see how we were doing - new friends with whom we share mutual friends Murray and Heather Rand (on Windswept). Brian and Kathy have been sailing since 1997 and now have their Alberg 37 in Guatemala. They are great people who provided so much help yesterday. They're travelling with our other new friends on a trawler but Brian and Kathy are the pit crew in their camper.

We all put up a our masts at a do-it-yourself place at Castleton Boat Club. Nice spot on the Hudson and very accommodating hosts.

We plan to move again tomorrow once we're all straightened away.

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