We have a plan heavily influenced by my experience at last
year’s finish line. I didn’t see the
first ones to finish, but watched from around 8am Saturday morning on. What I saw that morning were heroic efforts,
pained faces, and variants of “I’ll never do that again” (many of whom, according
to family and friends, said exactly the same thing after they finished last
year). As they day wore on, the smiles
increased. Laughter. Clearly the later arrivals had more fun than
the earlier arrivals.We won’t finish first. We won’t finish in the top half of finishers. We’ll finish Sunday mid morning, weather willing. Just in time for the ruckus. But if smiles are on our faces, it’ll be a personal victory.
Our boat is a Pygmy Osprey Double. Wooden, stitch and glue, built by a craftsman in Portland who really knew what he was doing. It was, and is, a well loved boat.
Training will commence shortly.
