Christmas Cruise
i had to get away! It's not often a single dad of two ad tny business owner can wrangle a few days off from responsibilities to others and focus on themselves, but every dog has his day and I had a week between Xmas and NYE that left opportunity for me to go cruising.
But which boat? I chose Misty for two reasons; the aim of the cruise was maximum relaxation (coffee and reading), it was going to stinking hot and "Tillman" offered little sun protection. But actually I took both in a way, more later.
Where to cruise? I was going through a river cruising phase. Subscribing to shanty boat living in my head had me dreaming of drifting down my local river (I could launch just a few k's away), to join a larger river all the way to the sea in the town of my birth. Fixed, well no not really.
Random act #1:
I am prone to acts of total randomness. It's a strength and a weakness and always makes life that little bit more exciting. (On my wage I need to generate some excitement!) So I decided, with a couple of days space, to fit Misty (19' trailer sailor) with tilan's gnter rig. T sail area was rescued by a little over half, but I didn't want to be wrestling a massive rig and as usual I was in no hurry. Besides, the Mirror rig is from timber with its warm gold colour and lack of the rattling racket that hollow aluminium tubes generate. And her sails would be scarlet red! How Christmassy. Yes some of my Random Acts backfire, this one did too.
We're Off to the River (Not):
But which boat? I chose Misty for two reasons; the aim of the cruise was maximum relaxation (coffee and reading), it was going to stinking hot and "Tillman" offered little sun protection. But actually I took both in a way, more later.
Where to cruise? I was going through a river cruising phase. Subscribing to shanty boat living in my head had me dreaming of drifting down my local river (I could launch just a few k's away), to join a larger river all the way to the sea in the town of my birth. Fixed, well no not really.
Random act #1:
I am prone to acts of total randomness. It's a strength and a weakness and always makes life that little bit more exciting. (On my wage I need to generate some excitement!) So I decided, with a couple of days space, to fit Misty (19' trailer sailor) with tilan's gnter rig. T sail area was rescued by a little over half, but I didn't want to be wrestling a massive rig and as usual I was in no hurry. Besides, the Mirror rig is from timber with its warm gold colour and lack of the rattling racket that hollow aluminium tubes generate. And her sails would be scarlet red! How Christmassy. Yes some of my Random Acts backfire, this one did too.
We're Off to the River (Not):
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