Evening Ebb

Gorgeous sunrise yesterday morning.

Talked with the weather router yesterday morning and there was only bad news. Front after front after front. Doesn't look as though there will be an offshore window before the 5th or 6th of May. Danny can't wait any longer and is flying back to Grenada today. So the delivery that won't end will now sport a larger ensemble cast.

Still working out how I'll spend the additional time. For once, I deliberately packed light this time, since after all my conversations with the weather router, I was fairly certain we'd only spend three days in Annapolis before heading for warmer climes.

It's actually cold this morning. 7ºC and the wind is blowing 20 to 25 knots.

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Vessel Name:	s/v Evening Ebb
Vessel Make/Model:	1979 Pearson 365 Ketch
Hailing Port:	Washington, DC
Extra:	The boat's name comes from a poem by Robinson Jeffers: Evening Ebb The ocean has not been so quiet for a long while; five nightherons Fly shorelong voiceless in the hush of the air Over the calm of an ebb that almost mirrors their wings. The sun has gone down, and the water has gone [...] down From the weed-clad rock, but the distant cloud-wall rises. The ebb whispers. Great cloud-shadows float in the opal water. Through rifts in the screen of the world pale gold gleams, and the evening Star suddenly glides like a flying torch. As if we had not been meant to see her; rehearsing behind The screen of the world for another audience. More