I bought this dumpy hat to wear as sunscreen when we are out on the water where no one will see me accept for Ben. But it is so hot that I gave in to dumpy-ness and I wear it shyly. I feel so stupid, but it does help a lot with the heat.
Here is Ben taking care of Lila by bonding in the heat. Lila threw up and has been laying around. I’m in the AC lounge doing work and just sending out a quick blog on our ideas. Good thing we don’t have plans cuz we would be on plan Z by now.
Our auto helm display unit is bad. We are fed-ex ing a new one for tomorrow so we can get going. We thought about not having an electric autohelm and we were just going to decide that when they found a display unit for us and they did test it with a display unit from a different boat. So another day we stay in the heat!
Now our ideas: leave tomorrow – sail all night to Yorktown, visit with Becca and Jason one last time before we shove off, wait for weather window which looks good actually for the atlantic this next week.. But we are not holding our breathe!
That is the scoop now.
Pam, don't worry about frumpiness. You look great wearing whatever. But you look a little sad in the picture. I guess all the waiting and heat is getting to you. Too bad about the helm display unit isn't working yet. Hopefully you'll soon be on your way after the new one arrives by FedEx.
ReplyDeleteHey, guess what I did with Sarah and Ben yesterday afternoon. We went to Lake Calhoun to go sailing with Werner for the first time. He let all three of us man the tiller and come about several times. "Prepare to come about. Ready. Hard to lee." The wind was coming from the north, and we sailed west and east, back and forth for about 2 1/2 hours. Two guys named Harvest and Marty joined us for about half the time. It was a beautiful sunny and windy afternoon with a perfect temperature about 77 F. It almost felt like being a bird as we glided along with the wind. And what an exhilerating rush when a gust of wind periodically sped us up and tilted the boat, requiring a strong grip on the tiller to stay the course. We'll definitely have to do it again. Maybe this will help prepare us just a bit to sailing with you in the Bahamas or Caribean, if we were to come visit for a few days this coming winter.
In God's timing,
Mike, Sue, Sarah, and Ben Thorud
read your posting last night ...
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this morning mike already shared the news ...
mike forget to share ... that they came sailing with a bucket of strawberries from their grandpa ...
here are some pictures:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=185594&id=47575674878&ref=mf
pam ... please get your family ... sailing lake calhoun ...
we will have another perfect day ... sailing today ...
liebe gruesse von werner
fun! everyone fun! thanks for commenting!
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