Ready to sail again

West Charlton
(10/9/05)Well, we sold the house and moved our furniture into storage, I've been to Alaska to take the dog up to live with our son Dave and his family in Fairbanks. Now we're ready to sail again.

Here's the plan.

• This week we'll head back to Champlain and take the mast down.
• The weekend of October 15 and 16 we'll head down the locks through the canal toward Albany. I've invited Rollie Faulkner, Pete Vonie and Fred Muller to come with us.
• We'll get the mast raised and rig for sailing in Catskill the week of the 17th.
• The weekend of October, 22 and 23 we'll sail down the Hudson toward New York. We invited the Undrills and the Faulkners to sail with us.
• From New York we'll head for Cape May, NJ, then up the Delaware Bay to the canal, and over to the Chesapeake Bay.
• We'll explore the Chesapeake for several weeks then set sail for the Virgin Islands and the Caribbean.

The bad news is that I suspect that it may be 2-3 more weeks until I get to post blogs again. I bought two PCMCIA cards for my laptop and both stopped working. There may be something wrong with my laptop's PCMCIA port. If so, the remedy is a new laptop. Nevertheless, I'll ask Jennifer to post status reports to the blog so you'll know we're not lost.

By the way, don't miss Jennifer's photo gallery of pictures sailing with us. Here is the
link The link is also on the blog sidebar.