Saturday morning we awoke after being shook and jostled by the wind all night. The wind let off a bit and so we decided that it would be a good time to raise the mast. We are at the Caselton Boat Club were they offer a gin pole to raise your mast do it yourself for 50 bucks. We had no wind instruments so we had no idea what the wind was really blowing. After we got past the point of no return the wind started to really pick up but we still had no idea by how much. When we finished stepping (raising) the mast we checked the wind and it was blowing steady 30mph and gusts to 65mph.We had two different sailing family's ask us if we were crazy..maybe so. The boat is all rigged except for the sails so a pretty good day. Everyone helps everyone here so we helped some people get out of their slip and they helped us move the boat back out of the mast stepping slip.We did some laundry and went and had some burgers at the bar next door. I think the rest of the day will be resting.
Sunday Deb and Lucy are coming to pick up the mast crutches and bring some veggies. After the women leave we will set sail toward NYC....
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