May 30, 2007

Popeye the Sailorman

This morning is one of those really beautiful early summer mornings. The skies are blue and seem to go on endlessly forever. There are a few scattered clouds but they only add to the beauty of this morning. On the way into work, I took a peak at the bay and the water seemed to go on forever. All the sailboats were out with the appearance of being ready to sail off at a moment's notice. They were all lined up, and even though their sails were down you could tell that they have been already been out sometime recently. I've always wondered how people get to their boats when they are in the middle of the bay like that. It must be more expensive to keep the boats in a slip, but what do you do take a row boat up to your boat. That must look pretty silly, somebody climbing from a little row boat into a much bigger boat. As silly as that sounds what's sillier is someone swimming out to their boat. After all, some of the boats are pretty far out from shore. And besides you would think from all that swimming they would be to exhausted to work the sails. This morning must be the perfect morning for a sail. Perhaps even having breakfast at sea. It's not windy out today so there probably wouldn't be much work with the sails.

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