Hark Another Bayfield (Bayfield 32 - Wind Dancing) and a Sea Chicken

We tuned in to Chris Parker on the internet this morning. There’s interesting weather all over the place. -10 degrees at home with wind chills in the -30s and 18-24 inches of snow (per home town reports) and here we’ve got 20-25 knot winds gusting to 30 and 8-9 foot seas at 10-12 second intervals.  After we listened to Chris Parker and then trying to check and send email we walked to the boatyard then to the pharmacy to see if Wayne could get some Sturgeron. There was none to be found. Hopefully Wayne won’t need it and has enough to get him to the end of the season. 

We get put in the water and Wind Dancing comes out of the water the next day.

      We spotted another Bayfield being hauled as we walked through the boatyard. It was a Bayfield 32 named Wind Dancing if I remember correctly.  We never did run into the owners but were told they’d be around until Thursday so we may get to meet them yet. It’s the same color scheme as ours (white and blue) and a beauty.  I can always pick out the Bayfield and Gozzard boats in the 32-40 ft range! The bow and stern are always so distinctive.

     We managed to get the Staysail up in the late afternoon. The winds let up for a bit but started up again so we’ll get the next one up hopefully tomorrow. It’s time for a break anyhow…

     I don’t know if I mentioned but s/v Sheilah (a boat from the U.K. and still in the boatyard) has a chicken that climbs the ladder from the ground up to their boat. It looks for handouts so Suzy gives it bits of bread or odds and ends. It’s the dangedist thing I’ve ever seen. Wouldn’t have believed it without seeing it with my own eyes! By the time it registered that the bird was climbing the ladder and I got my camera out and ready to shoot, it was already topside looking for Suzy to feed it! Wonder if it would follow a trail of breadcrumbs to the oven (kidding, kidding – nobody in their right mind would eat a chicken that feeds off of things in this boatyard… at least knowingly). It actually did come downstairs one time when Suzy didn’t feed it fast enough! Wayne named it Sea Chicken…

Suzy on the left and a new "Chicken of the Sea) to the right next to the ladder it climbed! Where's my breakfast it's asking