Feast or Famine--27th June 2015

You might think that we have been insanely busy with charters and hence have been neglecting the blog.  In fact the days have been a strange mix of really busy and pretty dead.  Feast or famine as Mike suggested.

Wednesday in the late afternoon, we went out with a couple from England who had traveled to the US for the first time ever.  On Thursday afternoon we had initially scheduled a longer sail but revised that to a set of three 2-hour trips.  We didn’t get anyone who wanted to go out.  Friday was another picture altogether.  Mike had two morning trips on the Ruth.  We knew we had a party of six for out 3:30 sail as they had booked well in advance.  We took them out in decent winds for a nice sail toward the south-west (taking advantage of the rare easterly wind).  These people were a subset of a family gathering of 17 people.  They had come to Sebasco to celebrate the patriarch’s 75^th birthday.  Later that evening we took a party of five out for a sunset sail.  By 9pm when we had the boat back on the mooring, we were pretty tuckered out.

Today, Mike had three trips on the “Ruth”, including the first pirate cruise of the season. The resort seems to find an employee willing to dress up as The Pirate.  His costume consists of a tri-corner hat, red jacket, eye patch (naturally) and funny trousers.  I’m not quite sure what story he tells the kids but he has a “map” that’s one clue to finding the treasure.  The children use the map to figure out that the next clue is on a buoy in the harbor.  From this buoy they get another map with the location of the treasure.  This leads them to the island (Harbor Island) across from the resort.  I hear the treasure is in an old chest and they scatter some plastic bones along the path to the chest.  I didn’t hear too much about the trip from Mike other than is was “chaos”.  

Today’s one trip for Cotinga wasn’t booked.  We went into Bath to do grocery shopping while we could.  Tomorrow some horrible weather is headed our way.  The winds are forecast to be about 25 knots gusting to 30.  The seas are predicted to be 9 feet.  It’s time to batten down the hatches and say our prayers. (Maybe we should take some sea-sickness medication as well.)