The 2023 Fun Season — How Much?

With Launch on April 27 and Hauling on October 19, this season lasted 176 days, almost half the year, spread over seven months.

Its heart was the 67 day cruise to Canada, reported earlier, July 8 to September 12. Second best was another big chunk, from May 21 to July 7, 48 days of living aboard and sleeping aboard while our apartment got new flooring installed and ILENE obtained a new mainsail. Together those two big chunks consumed 105 of the 176 days, leaving 61 days for the shoulders at the beginning and end. During those shoulders I sailed six days during the 25 in the spring and six during the 36 in the fall, plus 10 during the pre-cruise live-aboard period, for a total of 22 days plus the 67 on cruise (though some of the cruise days were lay days) for a total of 89 “underway or away” days. A satisfyingly full summer.

All of the days were aboard ILENE except five: three aboard Ohana and one each aboard Court Time and Jazz Sail. Six were with members of the Old Salts, two before we moved aboard, two, while the main was “broken” (on Ohana and Court Time) and the last two after the cruise.