I progressed from the dinghy to our present skiff, Tully Mars and started a new book for the new boat. The first page of the book we had everyone at the launching sign their names. There is the signature of Anne's Great Aunt, Edith Langille, who christened the boat with Rosehip wine, who passed on several years ago. Further down the list is a niece, killed last year in a car accident at twenty eight, a mere girl when she signed this first page. There are names of people I barely remember, and others who are good friends to this day.
Conditions are great, wind is light SW, sea is calm.
This was my first circumnavigation of the island and I remember the feeling of being at sea for the first time in an open 15 foot boat. A bit scary, but adventurous too. I haven't for awhile, maybe this year. I had met Alex a few days earlier on the wharf. We talked of the new Small Wooden Boat Association and it's first meeting.