Cambridge: resuming motion
Cambridge: resuming motion
Tornado warnings to the west of us last night and a hurricane to the east, neither of which have had any effect on Boston other than making the air hot, humid and oppressive, which is not as bad as that the Yankees beat the Red Sox last night by a football score: 20-11. I stopped watching in the second inning.
We are entering a period of transition, moving tomorrow to another place in Cambridge, then flying to Evanston next Friday, from where I will continue on to the boat on September 3, and Carol will return here after Labor Day.
Being my own administrative assistant/graduate student, I have been doing their clerical work, restoring the lost journal entries and trying to simplify the archives. There doesn’t seem to be any way to make mass changes, so I’m doing them one by one. It has been interesting to see my thoughts beginning to form about the voyage that I have now almost completed.
I just came across an entry from November 2006 in which I wrote: One of the problems with being in a boat yard is that you lose control of your life. That is the primary reason that if I sail around the world again I won’t go through Panama. I won’t give up my boat or life to pilots ever again.
It seems I changed my mind.
Several of the entries have been added to the list of favorite posts.
I’ve restored all of 2007. The photo above dates from that year and is of a shed on the mostly uninhabited shore east of my mooring in the Bay of Islands.
I check the New Zealand met service report each morning online. Yesterday and today have seen the first five-day forecasts for the Bay of Islands without any predicted gale force wind since I returned to the U.S. in June.
If you want to revisit the past, the restored portion of the journal’s lost years can be found here and the photographs here.
Saturday, August 22, 2009