Launched

Launch day at Raritan Yacht Club was very uneventful. No one fell in. I only got barked at once. As ever it was superbly organized and we had 30 boats in the water in about 4 hours. My job was painting the patches on bottoms where the keel blocks or stands had been. I got covered in paint as ever but managed not to avoid buggering anything up. Messing About went in fairly uneventfully with one exception the $%#@^&**^%ing outboard wouldn't start so I had the ignominy of being towed to my mooring. One of my club mates very kindly came with me to the boat later on to take a look. He is a mechanic and it took him five minutes to figure it out. All in all a very boaty week. RKJ Day took up most of my blogging week; last night dinner at New York Yacht Club for my friend Phil's 60th Birthday. What an amazing place! Today launching the boat. Hey, who knows I might even get some sailing in in the next few weeks.