On A New Tack

What will hopefully be the only Annual Update Given that aside from healthcare workers, grocery store/food delivery chain employees, the entire planet suddenly has a lot more free time, what better time to try to get in the habit of updating this Blog! Going forward, I'm going to create at least three types of posts, which can be filtered on the right side, under "Pages".  The current three are Sailing Related Posts - Kind of obvious General Posts - Basically all posts that are not sailing specific Technical Articles - For the dorks out there So what's happened in the past year. Found and bought a boat (1997 Beneteau Oceanis 40 CC in New Bern, NC) Moved it to Oriental, NC "The Sailing Capital of NC" Amazing place, BTW.  Great for a weekend trip.  People are super friendly and it is super relaxing to go there. Had it "on the hard" (out of water) at Deaton Yacht Service to do some work, bottom painting, etc. Named it Betelgeuse. ...

Before the fall of 2018, Sue and I had never really sailed, unless you count one Sunfish Rental at Lake Crabtree Park in Morrisville, NC and a daysail that Sue did in Buffalo, NY when she was co-oping at General Motors. We've owned a 17' Jetboat used in local lakes since June of 1998, but that's usually 4 or 5 hours max at a time on relative calm waters.  So what happened to get us on the Sailing kick?  Buying a Krispy Kreme box truck and visiting friends in Annapolis, of course!   Our business was expanding and needed an additional installation vehicle.  I found an ex-Krispy Kreme delivery box truck that fit the bill, being sold by Penske in Baltimore, MD. (It smelled amazing, by the way).  In order to get it back to Raleigh, I'd have to fly up to Baltimore on a Friday, pick up the truck and then drive back to Raleigh with Sue staying in Raleigh to keep things running.   Our super-close friends, and best-man (Jesse) and Matron of Honor (Lis...