Ah, Properly Rigged Once Again

En Route, Hudson River
42 10.27 N 073 52.74 W

We could almost hear Tarwathie give a sigh of relief as we re-stepped the mast and reattached the rigging. With the mast down, she's a wounded beast.

Things went so well that it leaves me little in the way of disaster stories to write about on the blog. Last night we anchored at Middle Ground, as quiet and secure a place as we could ask for. This morning at 0700 we weighed anchor and headed for Catskill in the morning mists. By 0800 we were at the dock, by 0900 we were ready to go, by 1000 the mast was up, and by 1200 the rigging, ropes, wires, lines, sheets and sails were all where they are supposed to be and I had time to raise the flag as a final gesture.

Now we're headed for Kingston. We'll spend the night there and tomorrow morning we go directly across the river to the Rhinecliff train station to meet Roger.