Peregrine arrived at her new home in SSI last night. Given the slip configuration, the wind was going to push her away from the dock, and combined with the strong tide, it was going to be the toughest docking of the trip. We waited for the tide to change, circling around until 5:30.
Oh, so much excitement. Would Peregrine’s momentum slowly move her away from the dock and I would reach out too much trying to loop the spring line around the dock cleat and fall in the water and Peregrine unattached would crash into the boat next to us?
As night was falling and tide changing, we sloooooowly made our way toward the dock, and passed a couple in their boat, and surely they looked at beautiful Peregrine, and he did the boater thing of coming to help us. Whew, no drowning or crashing. I have to report that Dickie brought Peregrine tightly to the dock in the most perfect manner, and I had time to loop the spring line around the cleat before handing the bowline to our kind helper.
And so we made it.
sv PEREGRINE 
Amen!
Hooray! Welcome home!
A perfect berth. Congratulations!
Are you Still on the boat or already back home? How do you feel after all these days? It seems it was really a great trip… And maybe my preconceived ideas will have to change. Which is always a good thing! Lots of love
We are back in Atlanta since yesterday. How do I feel? I don’t suppose you want to hear of the loads of laundry and mail. The closest would be a posting I wrote on Stuart’s facebook page. I’m going to write it as a last posting on the blog, so that you’ll get it.