I finally got out sailing yesterday for the first time this year, although it wasn’t on my boat. I was crewing on Knot Again in the Wednesday night race series at Raritan Yacht Club. We DFL’d but had a good time nevertheless.  I can’t believe it’s taken this long to get under sail. Even now now I still haven’t got the sails on Messing About. It’s unlikely to happen this weekend so maybe Memorial Day.

I came close last weekend but I was tied up on Saturday and it was too windy on Sunday.

Someone once told me that you spend twice as many days working on your boat as you do sailing. As I have been pottering about on Messing About almost every weekend since February I am starting to see the truth in that statement.

My goal is to get in 25 days of sailing between now and putting the boat up in October. It’s not much really