Today was a beautiful late summer day with an offshore (NE) breeze that had a little nip to it, cloudless blue sky and seemingly limitless visibility. Everything sparkled -- except my tomato plants that definitely showed signs of season (The crop is over, long before the first frost!)
This morning we found the missing piece of the puzzle of the running rigging to our little sailboat (soon to be named, I hope) through visits to the Stonington Sailing Club (where we learned principles of using the traveller in a single-sail dinghy), and Mystic Seaport, where we found one Dyer Dhow still rigged after the summer sailing program with just the fitting we need to connect one end of the mainsheet to the traveller. We'll purchase our fitting another day!
This afternoon we sailed for the first time in a week. The wind had great promise, but in actuality it was very fluky so we did not venture very far, but's the time of the season to savor every sail, so we stayed out for a while, catching and losing the good breeze and watching others do the same. (Only #23 of the season!)
And in between I did some chop-chop editing on the Soderberg grant proposal, gave advice to a doctoral student on a conference abstract, and dealt with a few details for the DM work. Tomorrow I must write the work order -- I should have done it today, but the day was too beautiful.
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