Thirty four days with only one visit to the boat! Almost five hours that day to charge batteries and clean up a few things, bring things from home and take others home to work on there. I took the three sheets of plastic that can mostly enclose the cockpit on cold and rainy days into our shower at home to give them a thorough soap and fresh water cleaning. The dorade cowls and stanchions need to be touched up here as well.
In my last post I reported that the Huguenot YC was taking an apparently unreasonable position about the charging of batteries. I’m pleased to report that, as usual, they do listen to reason; that problem has gone away. Thanks, guys!
Another trip to the boat was to heave the heavy snow off the winter canvas cover (enroute to a shopping trip with Lene in Westchester). However, on arrival we could see that the wind had blown the snow off; no need to even exit the car.
A lot of days were devoted to visits with Ilene to her doctors, in the hospital for pre-tests, the surgery itself and post surgical visits, plus duties at home for Nurse Roger during her recovery from the removal of a tumor. But all is good, the margins are clear, the lymph nodes show no migration and she has a zero count of cell division. So I’m blessed to be having my mate hanging around for a while.
Two nights out alone at off-off Broadway theater and one on Broadway with Lene and Bennett and Harriett. Three good dinners, two at the homes of sailing friends, one with Tom and Marie and the other with Fred and Rebecca, and the third with Ken and Mendy here in our place.
I enjoyed my visit to the NY Public Library’s exhibit of selections from among its treasures: e.g., a Gutenberg Bible, Charles Dickens‘ writing desk, Virginia Woolf’s walking stick and hundreds of other “things”.
Another day saw my first visit to the Queens Museum, in Flushing, the former New York City “Pavilion” of the World Fair of the mid 1960’s. Admission and parking are free but I took public transportation. It features a 1” : 100’ model of almost the entirety of the New York City land mass, studded with scale models of almost every building. But because it has not been updated since 1992, it still has the twin towers and not the new Freedom tower. Here is a section of Manhattan featuring Central Park. I hadn’t planned it that way but this section happens to include the locales of three of the Harlem’s prior winter excursions: to Randall’s Island (near to the left) and Central Park (in the center), both last year, and Roosevelt Island (the narrow one, two miles long, in the East River, to the right). (Rikers Island is in the extreme upper left.)
It was fun seeing the apartment house where I grew up in Washington Heights (3 miles to the left) and the one where we live now in Greenwich Village (2 miles to the right). City Island is on the map, in the corner, off the upper left. They turn the lights off for a few minutes every once and a while to show sunset, night and sunrise. A little model airplane periodically takes off (on a wire) from LaGuardia Airport. I had such a good time by myself that I’ve organized a visit there by the Harlem on February 19. (By the way, these excursions are available to all members of the Club and their friends; the later category includes you, my dear readers, so if you are interested, contact me for details. Lunch will follow at an ethnic restaurant for which the neighborhood has become famous.)
This will be our fifth winter excursion this season, including Sunday hikes organized by Dave of the HYC, with more to come. When I announced it at the very pleasant, efficient and short first Club Zoom membership meeting of 2022 I prefaced it noting: If NYC can call itself “The City That Never Sleeps”, well then the Harlem can be called “The Yacht Club That Never Hibernates!”
Otherwise, in addition to lots of TV:
— the movies - Licorice Pizza (save your money),
— an interesting Zoom presentation from my alma mater on employment law, economic and ethical issues relating to the gig economy and the great resignation,
— a zoom meeting of my Book Group, lively, by and large, because we did not enjoy the book,
— the transfer (with professional help) of the contents of my aging lap top to the iPad I’m now using to write this blog,
— a ride with my nephew, Mendy up to Goshen NY where he bought a part from a junk yard to install on the car he bought at auction to fix up and flip,
— visits by two interior decorators one of whom Lene wants to engage to redecorate our apartment.
So it’s not nothing, but it’s not a lot of sailing. I will be posting more often now that I’m back at Blogspot, all the news that’s fit to print.
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