WhimSea's Log

We headed up to the marina on Friday after work. We weren't planning anything special for the weekend, which is probably good since the weather was supposed to be kind of rainy.

Friday night we stopped for drinks at the Lighthouse.

Saturday and Sunday we hung out at the marina for much of the day, visiting with friends and just being on the boat. A nice weekend all the way around.

Its Sunday and we have a date with Dave to go out sailing. We started the day with a baked omelet at the Vanilla Bean (there is nothing like a Green Eggs and Ham), then returned to the marina to raise the mainsail.

Afterward, we headed out to the lake and a sail. It was significantly colder on Sunday then Saturday so we were all pretty bundled up. Not winter coats, but definitely fleece under the windbreaker.

We had good wind for our sail and spent enough time out there to get thoroughly chilled. We headed back into the marina and planned a hook up with Deb and the Buffalo House for dinner. Another tradition started up again. I can't wait until Rain or Shine is in the water too!

It was the first sail of the season and we were taking Joey and a friend of his. Troy and I ran up to Mocha Moose for a quick pick me up before heading out.

They arrived a little after 10:00 and helped Troy to raise the genny. Because of the wind and its direction, we decided against raising the mainsail, figuring if we wanted to, we could raise it out on the water.

We headed out from the marina and were pleasantly surprised to find out it wasn't freezing cold out on the water, despite the early date. There was a nice breeze blowing off the land that warmed up the air very nicely.

We sailed out towards Wisconsin, and about halfway there turned around and headed back to the marina. Unfortunately, Joey's friend got sick on the ride back, but all in all we had a good time.

After the sail we walked about the marina and visited with other folks getting their boats ready for the season. Then Troy, Joey, his friend Jesse, and Karen and Jerry Ruona went to Two Harbors and some Due North pizza.

We followed up some excellent pizza with more drinks and good conversation into the wee hours of the night.

It's the first Friday night at the marina for the 2010 season so of course we had to stop at the Lighthouse on the drive up for our traditional Plymouth Martini. Walking into the Lighthouse was like coming home for us. The martini's tasted excellent and the owners and bartender remembered us from the '09 season. We had an excellent homecoming.

Arriving at the marina, we found we were one of very few boats at the marina and the place was pretty darn quiet. It was nice to see WhimSea in her slip and we looked forward to our first sail the next day.

Received word from the marina today that WhimSea is in the water! Splashdown 2010.

Troy and I took a quick trip up to Knife to get WhimSea all waxed and ready to go in the water. We believe she'll be dropped in sometime this week. It was an absolutely beautiful day for a drive up to the North Shore and clearly we were not alone in our thinking. A number of folks were there getting their boats ready for the coming season. There were three boats in the water as of Saturday, but I'm guessing by next week there will be more.