I've been having trouble posting pictures, so I'm trying a new entry to see if that works. Here's a picture of Chuck that I was unable to add to the last post. (Well, seems to have worked this time!)

Aug.5&6 - Chuck & I made another trip to Cole's Point. The winds Saturday were good, but we managed to get a line hung up on a winch and had to take the winch apart to get it free. Having done that, we found that our legal and financial minds did not quite have the capacity to get the damned thing back together again! With the help of a new friend 3-4 slips down from me, however, we managed to get it fixed back at the marina.

That new friend is Marc who sings and plays wonderful guitar in a duo from Charlottesville called Scuffletown Road. His partner Jon (harmonica, flute, & acccordian) and wife Marty are the nice folks that took me sailing back in June when I had a boat, but no mast.

They invited us down the dock for dinner and music that night and we had a blast. Chuck joind in for most of the "concert" and I even managed to not embarass myself too badly on a couple of tunes.





Sunday, amid great plans to sail to the bay and back, we motored out into the river to find almost no wind! (As you can see in the droopy-sail picture below, when you can see the clouds reflected in the water, it's probably not windy enough to sail!) After sweltering in that for as long as we could stand, we headed back, only to discover that my rookie knowledge of my boat's electrical system had run down the batteries to the point that the engine would not start. Marc again came to the rescue with a tow back to the slip and a quick tutorial over a few beers on how to avoid the problem in the future!



Thanks to Marc & Lisa and Jon & Marty for their technical assistance, hospitality, music, and pizza, but mostly for not making too much fun of a couple of rookies!!