The Great Loop on a Classic Wooden Motorsailer
August 18, 2013
If anyone is interested, or knows anyone who MIGHT be interested, our beautiful, strong Memsahib is for sale and wants to Loop again.
You can find a description of the boat and pictures here:
http://boatworks.mobi/wooden-boats/
This is the official listing:
She just got back from a show in Mystic and is in the best shape ever.
August 18, 2013
John came back from his camp counselor job so we could attend the Antique and Classic Boat Rendezvous at Mystic Seaport. It’s a by-invitation deal for really classy boats, so we were honored to attend. Weather was great and hundreds of people visited Memsahib. It was her first time out of the slip since completing the Loop and it felt wonderful to be cruising again. I will post the story I’m writing for the Looper website.
Transitioning from the Loop hasn’t been hard, hasn’t been easy, it’s just been strange. After 50 years of total focus on school, work and the Loop, coming back to a great but disjointed life was confusing. Literally the day after we landed, it was off to Miami University of Ohio, a 1300-mile round trip for orientation. Then continued moving in to our new house, re-contacting old work friends, setting up my beautiful new shop, and a zillion other distractions. Wonderful to be home with Molly, but hard to shake that, “Weather’s good, ought to be getting going, ought to be on to the next port” feeling.
I tell my friends it’s like an old science fiction show: Two astronauts have an accident and land on another “earth” that is exactly, exactly opposite our earth from the sun. They think everything is okay until they start watching TV in the hospital and see an address from President Al Gore, an ad for Kentucky Fried Guinea Hen and a sports report about the Chicago Cubs sweeping the World Series for the third straight year. They get back, but it ain’t easy.
I have not even visited this blog since returning — too strange, too disjointing. But I’m better know. I really love the new shop and am building a cool wooden paddle board for a friend. I’ve done some consulting from the very best of my old vendors, and most of all, I’ve started planning a short cruise for the fall and more for next summer. We really need a smaller, lighter boat for the type of cruising we want to do in the future, but if it’s good old Memsahib, it’s good old Memsahib.
At the show with our official, 139-dot Great Loop map.
Memsahib steaming down the Mystic River all spruced up for the show.
Memsahib's Voyage 