God, I'm beat... I was out on the Raritan Bay all day today, from 10:30 to 4:30. My first venture on real blue water, not brackish river water.
I have to admit I was a little apprehensive and remembered an old sailor's prayer; "Lord watch over me for your ocean is so large and my boat is so small." He did - winds were light, seas were calm and I had a ball.
The Reenie K and I are getting used to each other, learning our quirks. She has a few, which I will pass along to the next owner, but won't bore readers with. Suffice to say she sails a true course, stays steady and is quite forgiving of an out of practice old man.
I will upload pictures tomorrow if they came out. The digital display is hard to see in bright light, so I kind of guessed. Tonight is the night to relax and have coffee and bask in the glow of a day unproductively spent. There are some gorgeous boats at Keyport, several beautiful ketch rigged sloops I'd love to own, but if i did, I'd spend more time owning them than sailing them.
Pictures tomorrow, I promise!
And here they are.. Not terribly interesting- they show a LOT of water. IN the second picture, you can see the Verrizano Narrows bridge if you enlarge the pic.
