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April First, April Fool's Day: Daylight Savings Time
begins tomorrow and the days are getting longer already, the past few
days have been unseasonably warm (60s-70s) -- then after
today's late afternoon shower, we were greeted by a (double) rainbow over "Chip Ahoy"!
(Apr. 1, 2006) |
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I hope this is a good omen for the season ahead. |
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Wally Riddle (c22 - "Carpe Diem"
/ Alerion 28 - "Rocinante") caught the double rainbow
from his home as
well. He and his wife live in a house overlooking Nahant Bay, and
have added these shots, taken at the same time. That's Egg Rock
out there on the right. |
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Nahant Bay is between the peninsula of Nahant and
Swampscott then Marblehead on the opposite coast to the north. The dimmer second
rainbow descends behind (or is that in front of?) Marblehead. |
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Oh well, it was too good to be true --
but nothing to be concerned with. Today's snow delivered the largest flakes I've ever seen,
each the
size of a quarter gently floating down, but it was just a passing flurry. (Apr. 5,
2006) |
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On April 26 I began the
forward hatch installation
project, cutting the hole in "Chip Ahoy's" perfectly good deck. |
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I took a day off from the hatch project to help Wally
Riddle bring his new Alerion 28, “Rocinante,” around Marblehead and down
along
Swampscott, over to Lynn from Salem. (Apr. 28, 2006) |
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I no sooner got the forward hatch secured and down (with
only a granite cobblestone to hold it down until the hatch dogs arrive)
when Monsoon Season '06
struck the next day on May 8th, eight days of wind-driven torrential
rainfall, "The worst flooding since the 1930s." One band
of offshore rain after another relentlessly battered the northeast coast
of Massachusetts along the North Shore, New Hampshire, and southeastern
Maine nonstop until the afternoon of the 16th, just before sunset. (May 14, 2006) |
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We'd planned to launch Vaughn McGrath's
“French
Curves” last Monday, but of course were prevented by the monsoon
weather. He got it in the water yesterday, and this morning he and I
brought his mast down to Tucker's Wharf, where he had his boat tied up.
(May 20, 2006) |
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With the eventual help of his dependably-tardy buddy,
Kevin, in the early-afternoon we raised his mast. Wally's “Rocinante”
is in the water for the season, now Vaugh's “French Curves” is launched,
stepped and ready for Sailing Season '06. All that's left is
getting “Chip Ahoy” ready and launched one day soon, I hope. It's
been a tough spring. |
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It's never-ending ...
but Sailing Season '06 has begun! |
