February is exiting and still no sailing.

Perhaps the water in the Bay will return in March. Down today for a check-up and a cuppa and the barnacles were still showing. They usually need to be covered to have enough water in the basin for sailing in and out of the slip.

It was almost high enough today but falling on brisk breezes from the west. Big front coming through with the promise of snow tomorrow.

Here’s hoping March will be a little kinder and bless us with gentle southerlies.

That’s my Phil Clarke Duckboat Speedwell viewed through the lumber shed. She was built in 1951 and the last boat Clarke built before selling the plans and patterns to David Beaton, Tom’s grandfather.

There’s a great story in the new issue of WoodenBoat about the resurgence of the Duckboat fleet on Barnegat Bay. Thanks Mr. Kellogg.

Photo by Suzanne Beaton of Tom and Meghan Beaton on the way to the starting line in B-10.