Awake and Afloat

Today we are in Scituate, MA. The last time I was here as a landlubber, and I was 21 years old. Jonathan was living in Scituate while working as a high school English teacher in Hull. I was a graduate student at Boston University studying for a MFA in Studio Art Education. How odd to be back in town and to have arrived by sailboat and with a child in tow and 27 years in the rear view mirror. 

Certainly, Scituate wasn't the WIFI hotspot it is today. At the Satuit Boat Club, we are making the most of being connected. Moss is FaceTiming Simon because she misses her big brother. Jonathan is using his iPad to make reservations for tomorrow night at a marina in Sandwich, MA and then he will chart our course in order to load it onto Cupcake's GPS.

After we finish with our digital needs, we are going to walk to a restaurant on shore. About the only analog part of our day. Even when sailing, we had the GPS on and were mostly using the iron genny. Although for our last three hours, we did roll out the jib and boosted our speed up to around 6 knots as we made our way across hazy Boston Harbor. I guess I did also use a manual snap kit tool to alter Moss' blanket, so she could wear it as a cape-and nap in style like an Incredible. Adding snaps, by the way, is a skill that I learned while earning that MFA.