Looking Ahead

Willsboro Bay, N44 24 W 73 24
(09/09/05) Wednesday we sailed down to Burlington. Once again we had to beat upwind the whole way. Murphy's law applies to lake
sailing. The random swings in wind direction go against you 80% of the time. In ocean sailing the rules are different. The winds
are predictable and the passages are planned to have the wind from behind almost all the time.

At Burlington we went over to the broken mooring and I dove with mask, snorkel and fins to try to find the chain. No luck. We'll
have to get a scuba tank.

We rented a mooring at Burlington again. I hate paying the $16 mooring fee there. It really seems like an excessive amount and a
waste of money. Trouble is, the only safe anchorages near Burlington are inconvenient for cars, so arranging a pickup is difficult.

I surfed the web and talked to travel agents trying to get a ticket to Fairbanks. The mission is to take our dog Pup up to Dave
and Cathy in Fairbanks. Alaska would be a great home for him. Alas, nothing seems affordable or practical. One can't have too
many airlines or too many stops when carrying a live animal. I'll keep searching. Meanwhile, are there any friends in the Capital
District who would like to give Pup a new home? He's a wonderful dog.

Yesterday we sailed to Willsboro Bay to spend the night. There was a front coming through after supper and I feared rough weather
so I put out two anchors. The front came, and we rode it out fine, but this morning the two anchor lines were twisted around each
other. That made it a lot of work to get them up and untwisted. Before doing that again, I'll have to use my head to figure how
to prevent them from entangling. Perhaps increasing the angle between them. In the extreme, 180 degrees, they shouldn't tangle at
all.

Today is perfect weather yet again. Nearly cloudless, temperature 65 degrees, water temperature 70 degrees, light winds. We'll
poke around the lake some more searching for places we haven't been. We have a date to meet Jenny in Burlington noon Saturday.

The news we hear on the radio about New Orleans is distressing. I hope we can find some way to volunteer to relive the suffering of those people. Governments, especially the US government, seem to react too slowly and too much to all probles.