As to the new crew member, if you didn't know already, surprise! I've started a couple blog posts titled "Two Departed and Three Returned," and attempted to write a follow up to Why is Cruising Like Having a Baby? but the truth is for the first 20 weeks or so of this newest adventure I felt lousy basically all the time and didn't have much good to say about it. Going to my Invasion Games class and playing soccer with a bunch of competitive 20 year old PE majors while constantly fearing that I might throw up on one of them, or exhaust myself to the point of complete uselessness for the next several days, sort of sucked. And that's too bad, because playing soccer for class is rad, and I'm a super competitive 31 year old who can usually hold her own. So feeling lousy all the time sucked, especially compared to how physically well I usually feel. It also made me sound super whiny and ungrateful when I tried to write about it. Add to that the necessity of attending to school work, and . . . no blog.
But here we are! January 31, and we're on a fine reach! After 4 months of not doing much riding and hardly any running I finally feel good again! I've been running every day and getting out on some road rides (MTBing is out of the question - I can't make it up a single climb). And that's all weird because I'm up 15 pounds and every muscle attached to my pelvis is experiencing some kind of painful metamorphosis. But my energy is so much better and I actually feel like myself again, for the first time in a long, long time. The little second mate (position of deckhand has already been filled by Mr. Noble) is poking and kicking and moving around, too, and that's pretty fun. My stomach is finally happy enough that I can enjoy my morning cup of (decaf) tea without incident. Joy.
But onto sailing! Obviously we've had none, as Tri-oomph stayed high and dry after our return. I think I've been out on the water two days total - one paddling and one motoring, neither my favorite activities. We were able to find barn-space for Tri-oomph to spend the winter, and have compiled a list of repairs to make before we can get off the hard in the spring. The goal is to be sailing in early April, because getting the the mast stepped and the boat launched while responsible for a small person sounds rather more complex. We've decided, at present, to skip the New England Boat Show this year, since they don't have a huge sailing section, and an even smaller multihull presence. Instead, I'm trying to convince Cody that we (all 3 of us) should go down to Newport in May when the Volvo Ocean Race comes into port for a few days. That looks to be a lot of fun. At any rate, we plan on sailing as much as we can this summer, and are planning to finally take our long-awaited trip to the Isle of Shoals, maybe in August. So no, not as much sailing as last summer, but hopefully many good days and nights on our little boat.
Anyway, cheers (toasted with sparkling apple juice) to fair winds and calm seas in 2015!
So much sanding.
So shiny!
She floats!
We ate a lot of ice cream.
Um, yeah?
But we saw a lot of amazing sunsets.
Okay, that was a pretty pathetic highlights reel, but most of my good photos aren't on this computer, so, I dunno, maybe I'll add some later.
