Looks like we can look forward to six more weeks of Winter, though if it’s like the last six it shouldn’t be too bad. It’s been warm enough lately to prevent any ice in the basin or down Bay as far as I can see. With light winds forecast for tomorrow morning I might go out for a sail and heave to.
Had the usual visit this morning and found the high winds had lifted and moved the hatch forward making things a little damp below. Left one port open and the drop board out; with this brisk northwesterly blowing she’ll dry out by morning.
Ran across the following quote in an 1898 book written by Thomas Fleming Day that was scanned and posted by Google. The book, On Yachts and Yacht Handling, was a primer on yacht management. Day was a yacht designer and the first editor of the Rudder. His most notable design was the Sea Bird Yawl.
“Books were made that man might pass his knowledge to his fellows; through them he speaks to a vast audience, and his power to enlighten is only circumscribed by the ability to impart this knowledge in lucid and interesting language.”
Let’s hear it for lucid and interesting language.
And the same for my ramblings in this current form of our ‘books’.
Pics follow:
First fire and tea of February
An ice free start to the month. And ice free bilges.
Continued work on the Herreshoff 15.
Old keel next to the blank for the new one.