Crews Letter #2011 01 Same Old, Same Old
Someone Has to do it!
Good morning Crew,
We sat out the 2010 season in
Texas for some things we wanted to do in North America that only happen in
summer.
We had a tour
and cruise in Alaska, sailed with friends in the waters of Vancouver Island,
attended the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky and Phyl has attended
horse show events with our daughter as a “show mom”.
We sailed the waters of
Chios, Inousses and Çesme
in 2009. It was a good time with some
very good sailing. This past winter,
Fred met a nurse in a doctor’s office here in Dallas who will travel to Chios
in August 2011 to marry a Greek from Chios.
The fiancée and his parents now live in Texas. They travel to Chios for a family
wedding. She is excited and to find
someone who has been there added to her excitement.
All in all, it has been a slow and different retreat from SV
Perception and the Mediterranean. Needless to say, we both had hollow feelings as we set her
up for a 16 month sabbatical. That was a
year ago last November. It was a good
thing to do and the hollow is filling with plans for the 2011 season. 25 March we will fly to Marmaris. Launch SV Perception 1 April and start
cruising in mid-April.
That was the plan. Near the time we had planned to fly to
Marmaris, Turkey, an eye doctor told Fred that he needed surgery to remove a
Pterygium. This is what one looks like.
Fred had one removed from his
left eye in 2003. The one on his right
eye was about 2/3 of the way toward the iris, not as advanced as the one in the
picture. The good doctor and his crew
removed it. After 4 weeks, we came to
Marmaris.
Our program for the season
includes cruising the southwest coast from now to
July, then the Dodecanese and Cyclades in July and August, meeting friends in
Kos in mid August to sail to Kușadasi then meeting friends there in early
October for a sail to Marmaris. We will
put Perception on the hard for the winter at Yat
Marine, Marmaris in late October.
Perception is ready to go,
mid May, not mid April.
Same old, same old, we are
back in the rut.
A tight luff for upwind,
Phyl and Fred
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