Spring! I Lightly Turn To Thoughts of Launch

Ah, March is here.  "Ninas" has spent the winter wrapped tightly in a cacoon of tarps, resting on her trailer in my driveway.

"Nincas" is my 16 ft. Marshall catboat which I purchased 4 years ago as an antidote to no boat-itus.  This concition occurs when a life long sailer decides that boats are too much of a bother and foolishly desposes of one of the few things that he truyly enjoys - sailing a small boat on Narragansett Bay.

I found her in S. Dartmouth MA sitting in the Marshall Caboat yard; the victim of a divorce and subsequent dispbursement of property.  She's an older boat, built in 1976 but her hull and rigging are sound and the Oak trim is in modestly decent shape.

I've sailed her for the past four summers and despite my problems with low vision (I am legally blind) I single hand Ninas with relativel ease.  Just writing this gets me excited about the prospect.

I'm anxious to start preparing for launch day but March may be a bit too soon to start scraping and saning.  But the weather turns fairer every day and launch day is just around the corner.