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Takara helping make the new windscoop...Inspector Gadget doing her job.
If you haven't read "The Little Windscoop That Couldn't" that might be a good place to start. The new winscoop is beautiful. Blue wings, white center, spinnaker tape holding the rip-stop fabric together. The dimensions, perfect. Construction, professional grade. The sound, horrendous...intolerable. It sounded like a hundred children on deck all armed with bubble-wrap and tin-foil. It seems .75oz rip-stop is not the preferred weight. We were both aghast. So Windscoop (brand) took a chink of our budget and we once again have a fine breeze funneling into the cabin. Right now, we have enough wind that no paper products will stay in the table, my kind of wind.
Now, we've set our sights on making rain-stoppers so we can have hatches open during the rain and still have breeze/ventilation. A few yards of fabric, stitch the edges, install grommets, and now it can pour enough to inspire ark builders and we will be dry and comfy inside. The design and construction are quite fine and functional... no unruly ghost-children on deck running amok.
Both Brian and Holding Pattern are 1974 models. This weekend is the celebration and the Heavens are joining in with a meteor shower to celebrate my arrival to Earth. Still not sure where I cam from, one book says Mars, my mother says I was hatched, so things are still in dispute.
Come Tuesday we're leaving Annapolis (bye-bye crowd) and heading across the Chesapeake Bay to the Chester River and taking a few days to go to Chestertown. They have a Farmer's Market on Saturdays so we're looking forward to the fresh produce and all the goodies the Market brings. Looking forward to new anchorages, new sights
From "Warriors of the Light" by Paulo Coelho, it reminds me of cruising...
"If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off. The Warrior requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The Warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to forsee everything."
Coelho has become one of my favorite authors. The Alchemist has been a great inspiration and I have accumulated his entire library and Eleven Minutes is the only book I would not give an "Excellent" rating to.
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