The weather has not been cooperating lately. This week brought more rain than anyone
deserves. Nevertheless, Saturday,
Sunday, and Monday relented and gave us a wonderful weekend aboard with our
good friend John. While the winds did
not make Block Island an ideal destination, we did find Newport and Potter’s
Cove to be beautiful anchorages. Once in
Newport, a port that John had never been to before, we went on long walks and
visited The Breakers and The Elms, two magnificent mansions of
the Gilded Age. While it is great to see
such magnificent architecture and art, they also remind us of how our history
has and may always be defined by the distance between those that have too much
and those that struggle to get through each day. It is clear that one cannot exist without the
other. Each owes to the other for their
quality of life.
We also went to the Newport Shipyard to look at some of the
most spectacular yachts in the world.
This is a yard designed to accommodate super yachts, mostly sail. They had just put together their new
travel-lift that took 8 tractor-trailer loads to bring to the site for
assembly. It can lift a mighty 500
tons! We have never seen a lift with
this capacity. This lift can pull two
hundred foot sailboat, rig out.
Our preparations for traveling south are now focusing on
packing up our belongings and placing them in a forty-foot trailer that Paul
has so graciously allowed us to place on his property. Load by load, we will be packing our
possessions. As we are packing up, Stan
and Liz, our landlords are in the middle of a five-day sail to a U.S. port
after two years in the Caribbean. We
wish them a safe journey and fair weather.
More to come!
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