Time to get reacquainted!!!
07 May 2017 | Cape Cod
Ellen, rainy 50s
This is our new/old sailboat. She is a 1995 15' west wight potter. Randy found her locally on Craigslist. I started out pretty resistant because all I saw was more registrations, titles, paperwork, stuff, (ugh). That expression that you don't own your stuff, your stuff owns you resonates with me constantly. But..........for years I have struggled with trying to find some sort of balance when we are here working on the cape. My take of our life is that we are blessed to have six months of downtime (always fun, but not always as productive as I envision) and six months of bust your a$$ time. I would like to smooth the edges and tweak it a bit so we have 12 months of bliss!!
Although we have a ways to go before sailing season here, we are hoping to be disciplined enough to take days off and enjoy this beautiful place we are lucky to live six months a year. We have deep water, beautiful beaches (she draws six inches with the keel up) and three harbors to launch within ten miles of us. As I said in the previous post, we are struggling to figure out where boating sits with us right now and this seems like a great place to see if we can rekindle some of those dreams!!