No major surgeries in 2015 (yet) just a couple of cancer operations. By our new standards that's no big deal. I built a PVC panel hardtop bimini to for our cockpit to replace the old canvas one. The project went pretty well, not perfect but good. We are having the job finished by a canvas shop in Annapolis in October. They will make new side curtains and windows.
We went to the annual Memorial Day rendezvous to Hamburg Cove with the Squadron. It was warmer than last year and we had good weather with a good cruise back to Mystic. The major trip this year was the Squadron extended cruise out to the Martha's Vineyard area and we extended that cruise out to Provincetown for a few days and returned via Cuttyhunk and Montauk. Heather was with us on this longer cruise and boyfriend Mike joined us on the very last weekend.
The most interesting part of this trip was the group decided to go into and anchor in Lagoon Pond, Vineyard Haven for the first time and we decided to join them. Why was that interesting? There is a bascule bridge blocking the entrance to the lagoon and the horizontal clearance is only 30 feet. Infinite Improbability is 24 feet wide making it a very tight squeeze. We estimate we got the boat in with clearances of 18 inches on either side. Carol almost had heart failure it was so close. When I heard her gasp I knew we were close on her side of the boat. If you add up our 24 feet plus 18 inches on each side it doesn't quite come to 30 feet. Something was off here but we made it in. And out.
Another nice touch to this adventure is I wrote about the lessons learned here and submitted it to Points East Magazine. They will be publishing the article in some future issue and I will be paid for it. Being paid makes me a professional writer now. I think. Maybe. Even if it's a small amount?
The other interesting event on this cruise was Heather being startled (okay, she screamed) by a whale breaching next to the boat while crossing Cape Cod Bay on the way back to the Cape Cod Canal. I was just a few feet away but by the time I jumped up all I saw was the splash and the "footprint". It was a small whale, by whale standards, but judging by the hole in the water at least 15-20 feet. Maybe a minke.
That's about it. Just a couple weekends at Montauk and Watch Hill completed our boating while home. We usually don't do much. Our mooring is in such a great location we don't feel the need to leave. Well, we do leave but only because we know winter will come to there and when winter is coming we are going. South. In just a few days as I said.
As we are travelling blog updates will be more frequent, usually at each longer stop.
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