The Social Whirl

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Three nights ago, we had a visit from Rachel (see the picture). Rachel cruised on the Westsail 32 Moonrise. I just added a link to Moonrise's blog in the Other Blogs section on your right.

Libby and Rachel

Two nights ago, we invited Karl and Glen over to have diner on Tarwathie. Both men live alone on their boats, and both are anchored here in Urbanna for a while. Karl has a small vessel (see the picture). I believe it is an Albin 23. He bought it in Malmö, Sweden and sailed over hear. The boat's name is Sjöjungfru, which means mermaid in Swedish. Libby and I enjoyed listening to Karl and Glen. The two of the are as different from each other as can be.

Karl on his boat

Last night, we had diner with Gary and Nell at their house. Gary is building a wonderful wooden sail boat in his garage. We've written about him before. We've had the couple on board Tarwathie for dinner, and once Gary sailed with us and John and Mary Ann to Deltaville. Anyhow, they invited us over for a crabcake and shrimp diner. Mmm mmm boy was it good.

Gary is also making good progress on the boat. See the picture, and compare it with the picture from last year.

Libby and Gary inspect the boat

Tomorrow, Nell leaves for two weeks in Peru as part of a church mission. That sounds like a nice adventure. She can tell us about it when we pass Urbanna sometime in the future.

Gary and Nell

This morning we were supposed to leave for Washington D.C. I got up at 0530 to prepare. The wind was excellent. However, it was cold and it was raining. It just didn't look like fun. I exercised the cruiser's privilege. I changed my mind about leaving and crawled back in to bed to cuddle with Libby.