Off To Martha's Vineyard Island

Posts have been non-existant due to change-over in compters, i'm still working it out. Meanwhile I will be joining Dave on board our sweet new/old boat. I look forward to the visit. Dave said, "Bring your draimimine." I know it's a joke but I will most likely feel queezy at some point in the trip. He never gets sea-sick and that just isn't fair. I haven't been away from home since driving  back and forth to Gloucester last winter. This time I'm leaving the car in Hyannis, it will be like old times -traveling on my own to far off places. MVI is not far, as the crow flys, but all day on car, boat and bus will be all the adventure I need. Events at the Blessing of the Fleet in Provincetown at the end of June will stay with us forever. Family, friends, loved ones gathered to share a space on board our Richard & Arnold. I'll post pictures taken by Steven Kennedy from onboard the boat. There's one of me that I kinda like, I'm not fond of having my picture taken. Dave on the other hand never takes a bad photo. The harbor where I'm heading will most likely be baking in the sun like every place in America right now. I remember being in downtown Ciaro in 1992 and it was 120 degrees in the shade. Move slow, drink water and stay out of the noon day sun. I also remember being in Menemsha, a tiny bowl that has no cell phone reception, when it felt just as hot. I'm going to get away from my responsibilities and to feel the water under me again.  I'll fish with  my honey for three days, from 5AM to whenever we catch our daily limit-which doesn't take long since the quota is so small, but that's another story. dave and I try to avoid the conflict with overzealous burourcrats, we just say, "yes'm and do their bidding." It's a sore subject and one better left to tell in the book, 'Nautical Twilight'. It's all there in black & white. So now we we have an 80 year old hull that may one day be a sailing / fishing yacht. Or maybe we will have to take all the fishing gear off and sell our permits to some big company, who can afford to buy our share. I know for sure that our Richard & Arnold will out live Dave and me, and most likely all the people in all the offices that have been hired to keep an eye on one old man and one old boat