March 19

Anybody ever read about others' difficulties and think you're immune? Won't bore with details, but getting shipped blades was a very expensive all day deal involving rules that are not just unknown, but unknowable. Can't complain too much. KISS is shoving amps into wazoo and after counting all cash flows (including assumed to be extravagant roaming phone bill) did better than if parts picked up in Tarpon Springs. Plus got to cavort with cute models and stereotypical art director/photographer,
dashingly accoutred in beret and neck scarf, Stefan.

Expected current anchorage to be ugly with arrival of 5 - 6 foot swell this morning, but Anthem seems to be in an inter-wave convergence zone. Reef crashing and foaming north; breaking beach rollers south; relatively calm here. Cool! Couldn't possibly change overnight.

Barring major forecast adjustment, will leave for Luperon tomorrow afternoon to arrive Saturday AM. Very large north swell forecast after that for a week and a half.

Time now for sustenance and libation to celebrate, because, to quote Goethe, "Nothing is worth more than this day". and to quote Homer Simpson, "To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems".

Jack