Questions Answered: Who is Stan Rogers?

Thursday, October 2nd: Still the Sassafras River

When I said that Bob had put on a Stan Rogers CD during the Cape May storm, it did cross my mind that many people would not know the name. I had to chuckle when Krista asked the question. He could probably be called a Canadian folksinger, was from Nova Scotia and had his own east coast sound. Most of his songs tell a story and some of them concern life on the sea.

To B & B - comments don't appear immediately because I have elected to "moderate" them - so I receive them as email and can then publish or reject them. I publish all comments (really!) - but since I began moderating, I haven't received any more weird spam-like messages. I published your comments yesterday afternoon so you should be seeing them now.

David and Susan asked how many miles we had traveled in our 2 days of travel from Cape May to the Sassafras River so we went back and checked - it was about 97 miles. For non-sailors, that's a fair distance by sailboat although if we hadn't been bucking the current the first day, we could have done the same distance in much less time.

A couple of friends have asked whether or not we have been talking to people who are also traveling south. The farther we go, the more sailboats we see that are obviously outfitted for long distance traveling. Many of them are Canadian, and we have do trade stories with some of them. One couple spent the heavy weather days last week on a mooring ball at the 79th Street Marina. They found the current too strong for their dinghy engine and had to wait for a favourable tide before they left their boat ----- which reminds me that every time we get in our dinghy, I am grateful that we replaced our old Mercury 8 horsepower motor with the 4 stroke 9.9 Yamaha - it's reliable, quiet and gets us where we want to go up - even up the Hudson against the tide.

We decided to remain here on the Sassafras River another night and after a getting diesel and a pump out, we took a mooring ball in the boat basin. It was very windy today and it was adventure enough to get away from last night's dock, trying to maneuver in small space with the wind and the current pushing us back - we made it with help from a couple of fellows on the dock. Most times it seems that there is someone who happens along to help, Bob comes up with a strategy or some other fortuitous thing occurs so that everything works out.

Tomorrow we really are leaving and have a couple of spots picked out in the Cruising the Chesapeake book that I bought at the marine store today.