Long Time No Blog!!

It's been a long, dry spell here as we've been traveling to the East Coast to visit -- 3 weeks of visiting, one week of sailing, then 5 days in Toronto at a conference before returning to Anchorage!  I got to see two sisters who I don't see very often, and then I found out that it had been 17 years since all 6 of us as brothers and sisters had been together in the same place at the same time - that was worth going home for, for sure!  I have to come back and post pictures when someone sends me one, as I only had my phone and didn't get any of us together.

One of the things that we like the best is seeing old friends . . . and there are SO MANY people we want to see, we never get to see them all.  We spent a nice moonlit night, though, with John Cappelli and his friend Dawn and Jim Hayes . . . the 3 guys have a lot of history together, and we both enjoy spending time with them when we're "home!"

Boilermaker Sunday was right after we got to Utica, and we got together with Brian's family for a picnic at the Sauquoit Town Park - something of a tradition now!

Sailing was so nice once we got there, as usual, and we had great weather for it.  We sail out of Henderson Harbor now on Lake Ontario on Petrel, a 1978 32' Allied Seawind, originally made in Catskill, NY!  A week on a boat is like being away, away for a month - even with some engine trouble that changed some of our plans!  The boat gets picked up and set in the water in a pretty interesting process.

The next morning we set out to sail in Henderson Bay, intending to return to the dock, but the winds were blowing just right, and we sailed to Cape Vincent, about a 5 hour sail.  We ended up spending more time there than we had intended because of inclement weather and then a little engine trouble when we were ready to leave.   It was all worth it for sailing!