..."to the vagrant gypsy's life"... WHERED THE SUMMER GO?

It would be more perfecter if you threw in a bit more color.

Nat King Cole has been one of my favorite vocalists for many decades.

Taking a boat South to Fla Next week, (if all the plans and the wether holds). Long range is for calm ses and middling temps on shore winds so a trip on the intercoastal may be a respite from sailing out to Bermuda and in. Shes a nice rig and Ive got Mrs F as cook and two otr couple who volunteered to crew. A week or more is easily doable at a snail pace and nobody Ive talked with wants to set a record. We may make a coupla night stops off the boat.
Ill probably be signing off for maybe 10 days starting Mon or Tues.

We have an old cat that needs a sitter so we have an AMish girl to live in and take care of the cat and the house. She "likes" tv so Im not certain about her lifetime prognoosis as a"House Amish". Cats her friend .

Bon Voyage, and have a fun and safe trip.

Did I already mention that my wife and I are doing the one week Columbia and Snake river cruise in October. Looking forward to it.
https://www.americancruiselines.com/cruises/alaska-and-pacific-northwest/columbia-and-snake-rivers-cruise

gear all stowed. We wil be outbound . on Monday. Look like a big H i gonna settle in so we may just reach for Bermuda instead of the intercoastal .

Believe it or not I got sick on a Mississippi Riverboat. When Im on any kind of boat thats longer than 150' , I have trouble with my internal horizons and I get nauseated really fast. When we were piloting our 40' lobsterboat, we were always buy and IAPETUS rode the waves differently than a big scow.
We did a "Freighter trip" through panama with the kids many yars ago. I got sick there too and it took me several days to acclimate. Then when I got back on land it took me several days to re acclimate.

I take to small boats much better(as long as they are appointed nicely and Im either captain or part of a busy crew.

My wife gets seasick out at sea, but is okay on riverboats. I've done both Atlantic and Pacific crossings, and many rivers including Yangtze, Nile, Thames, Elbe, Amazon, Mississippi, and Volga.

casting off bout 4 PM tomorrow. Gives us a bunch of hours to get to CRisfield Md and pick up anpther couple . Maybe well have some seafood for supper.

Seafood sounds appropriate - probably more than once.

dang dqmn good time . Hot nd breezed up all way sout'. Were back at a marina near Crisfield where one of the couples has an apartment along the docks. Sleepin on board tonight, off to Northeast here the old cow needs some work . The shaft pcking was leaking and we qere dewatering mot of the way out. They made some minr repairs in SC and e had a nice worry -free trip on home. We should be back at the farm by PM (7/3).
Lotw of Finbacks and Minke whales and we collected brown pelicans who thought our boat was a Holiday Inn .
As we were out pretty far and Im usually takin the latest AM watch where ill usually be making tea(Harney's natch) and shooing pelicans off the deck. One took a liking to our rig and sat aboard most the way In to Charleston SC.
COming back we had the wind and ' stream with us and we moved like a sailfish .

Lookin foward to RIBS on the 4th.

night night.

dewatering

sounds so nice doesn't it

Crisfield was/is a nice town. We've had some good meals there over the years.

Back to Northeast Harbor?

Hope you got some good pix of the whales and pelican crowds.

HOME. Northeast is a town in Cecil County Maryland. Its as far North nd still be in the Chesapeake Bay. By order of the ACE, the Chesapeake By starts at the lighthouse in community Park Havre de Grace.

Really steaming hot on shore, JEEEZUS H.CHRISSE.

Crisfield is pretty much a town that is rebounding. The seafood shacks nd bots are mostly gone save th market hunters and oyster farms (Oysters have made a huge rebound becaue they are now farmed like sweet corn).
Crisfield is turning into a tourist development center with waterside condos and pleasure craft. All the boats to SMith and Tangier Islands leave from Crisfield.
Ya gotta stay tuned to shoal reports (specially with heavy keel bottoms)

that's how I got to know it - meals to and from Smith and Tangiers. Oyster fritters. Oyster stew. fried oysters on a bun. fairly recently I 'met' a Smith from Smith Island on another forum. He sent me a traditional recipe that I'm trying to shrink so I can make it. I don't really need a cake that serves 20+

SMITH ISLAND CAKES!!!! SLOWLY I TURNED...
Our first time out we bought a couple of the overpriced undersized cakes as souverniers. Ive seen cupcakes bigger. They are 50 bucks (US) now.

we passed by Smith nd Tangier on the way out. We did hail a "buy Boat" and got some crabs at a reasonable price

I have the recipe. Indeedy-do.

Fine Cooking has a half-size one. Someday I'll go crazy and do a compare and contrast with the recipe I got from Winston.

https://www.finecooking.com/recipe/smith-island-cake

one cake for 10 - 12, one for 20+
just what I need

I saw mention of pistachio gelato being served with the cake. A winning combination.

mmmm pistachio

every Smith Island cake Ive et, is a yellow cake w/ chocolate icing. Dont they make another friggin flavor? Im not a big chocolate admirer excpt with malt

Going to sea again. Piloting a Cheoy Lee to Gran Bahama. be back in a week or so (See how long we can milk this one (as long as hurricane season remains "at bay")

stay dry out there

And always a hand's width of water under your keel!