Sailing Vacations
A Maine Windjammer

Good Morning Everyone. A new week begins here full of promise. Sunrise begins this week at 0612 and sunset is at 1735, almost 11 ½ hours of daylight. Though the sun’s warm rays shine down upon us winter is still here with wind chills forecasted to dip well below zero. Our efforts this week will be focused in the barn on the yawl boat. I have one plank to remove and replace. I want to check the shaft alignment and clean the fuel tank. And the varnish and paintwork will get a good rub and recoating. Crew will begin to arrive later this week. March is a awesome month for us. As the sap rises so does our energy for getting ready to go sailing. It is hard to believe our Memorial Day Weekend cruise is only a few short months away. So much to do and so little time to do it. But I am dreaming of visiting the islands, smelling the sweet spruce, tasting lobster on the very first day we sail, and feeling Mary Day heel to a full press of sail and carry us away. Have a great day. Be wel...

Good Morning Everyone. Yesterday I told you about our wonderful evening with “Lady” Jane and Mary Day Hawkins. I will attempt to relate to you a story that had me thinking and laughing. As we grapple with our current ADA dilemma I wonder about how we value “old timey” things, including windjammer vacations on cool old schooners and this story really got me thinking. I mentioned that Jane is writing her memoirs. Sitting at home she does the “hunt and peck” thing that I can relate to. One day her typewriter up and croaks on her. Now what is a gal to do? So down she drives to the local “big box” office supply store. She wanders around for a few moments and a young clerk asks her if he might help. This young man, shirt half untucked, could be her great grandson for their difference in age. Surveying the aisle of keyboard word processing items before her she summons all the composure she can muster and asks him if she might be able to buy a typewriter, a regular ordinary “old fashione...