I had a chance to sail with Mark and Cat last weekend on Restless, we went to Oyster Bay in Lake Charlevoix, and it was awesome !!!! It was totally sunny, but no wind and we had to motor the 2 hours up and back, but so what :)

We have talked about selling Rubaiyat and downsizing to a 26 ish footer with a trailer. So I can launch for just a couple days or a week and do all the rig, launch and load myself. With this dog career it just isn't gonna work to put Ruby in for the summer without a seasonal slip and time to use her. I am thinking about $25,000. range, so if you know someone interested let me know, but we are still just THINKING about it :) Chrissy favors a 20ish footer fishing boat with a cuddy, which I have no problem with either or both :) would be fine too :)

Trying to sell the 1988 Harley Davidson Dyna Wide Glide 95th. Anniversary edition too, $8800. at this point, hoping to fund a slip and storage for the big wood boat for a year or so, and buy chrissy a car of some sort. The 1987 Pontiac Grand Am that Mom gave us is getting pretty tired but working just fine for what we need around town.

So, enough mumbojumbo for now, sitting at mydesk drinking coffee, chasing the sprinkler anround the garden and brainstorming for getting back to being a Mariner.

later, Capt. Dean