Fred

Shady Harbor Marina, N 42 27 W73 47

We told people at the open house that our plans are changing yet again. Our house still isn't sold and a contributing factor to that is that we've been unavailable so much of the time in person or by phone. We need to delay to stay near the house, and we're already nearly too late to make it past Chicago before winter.

The new plan is to stay in the Hudson for a few weeks, then to move up to Lake Champlain for a month or two, perhaps from Champlain back to the Chesapeake. In any case, next November we'll sail for the Virgin Islands. The books say that November is the optimum time for that passage. November is after the last hurricane yet (hopefully) before the winter nor'easter storms that come up the east coast.

The first concrete step in that plan was to rent a slip at Shady Harbor Marina about 15 miles south of Albany. Today, Fred Muller helped me to sail from Albany to Shady Harbor, while Libby drove our car here. We had a very fun trip and Fred seemed to enjoy it almost as much as Pete Vonie enjoyed the sail up the Hudson. A side benefit is that we're only a mile or so from those four eagles. We saw two of the eagles today.

A benefit of the new plan is that we'll be closer longer and we have a chance to see those of you who missed the open house.

Tomorrow the forecast is for 96 degrees F (36 C) and high humidity. Sounds very uncomfortable. The marina has a very nice swimming pool and I'll bet that we use it.

So, for the next few months we'll be partly on the boat and partly on land. I promise to write blog articles but only for those days on the boat.