New Season

     It's finally the start of a new sailing season. We hope this will be an endless season as we plan to move aboard our boat full time and not winter in New England again. If we never winterize, the season never ends.

     The boat overwintered in the water in Clinton, CT. so didn't have a launch. Just uncovered it. De-winterized the engines and freshwater systems and ready to go.

     Well, not really. It still needs a lot of cleaning.

     Regardless of status the boat had to be moved by 15 April and on Wednesday the 14th we did just that. With the help of Frank Krapf, a Waterbury Squadron member, we headed for Mystic on a beautiful sunny day.

     Motorsailing until the Conn. River and then a nice sail to the New London area when we started motorsailing again until the Fisher's Island Sound area.

     Then came our first adventure of the season. We came into our mooring area at dead low tide and knew we were going to go aground. When the inevitable happens, you're still annoyed at the inconvienience. A couple of hundred feet short of where we were going to anchor we got stuck. Had to wait about 90 minutes for the water to get deep enough to move to the proper spot. The downside to having a relatively inexpensive mooring in a pretty and protected area is not always having enough water to float in.

     It is almost guaranteed this will not be the first time Infinite Improbability will be aground this year. It may be a common occurance once we get to the ICW.

     Now if we could just get the house, land and other boat sold.