Spring Fever

Wow, it sure can be difficult to get motivated. The entire winter has elaspsed and I have not made a single entry to this blog. I have had to concentrate on working to support my family and that has been all I could handle this winter. It was a great season, but not without it's misery. I finally feel like I'm moving in the right direction. My mental health has been better since I started excersizing again. For the first time in my life I have a gut, or as my Italian friends say", pancha." Like pancetta, bacon...or belly. I have become Johnny Pancha. I know it is because I sit on my ass at a desk, or I'm in the car driving to see clients. This is the kiss of death at 45. I could easily put a chapter in here called " How to grow your buttocks." The problem is now my body is truly bizarre. I have a hard chest and arms with a inner tube around my waist. I will have to quit my job to lose it... so that is what I will do!

I did manage to rebush my self steering gear this winter. The Aires Vane was purchased 8 years ago sight unseen from a sailor in Florida. I used it to sail to Maine and it worked reasonable well. I must confess that I have not used it since. Tearing it down and analizing it has opened up it's mechanics and I feel I truly understand it now. I did plan to have some photos of the process, but I can't find them... so here are my kids, Blake on our winter beach. A very mild day just before Spring. Dante at the Lobster Shack this summer.