Out For A Sail on the Schooner Adirondack!

I'd hoped to finish off weekend-before-last-Sunday's fun, we did something cool after the conservatory garden, but that one I actually want to write a little something about, and work hasn't really been cooperating with leaving me enough time and energy to do that, so instead, here are some nice pictures from Saturday the 14th when TQ and I went on a boat (I'm on a boat!). I'm under doctor's orders not to paddle until the end of May, but there's no trouble in going out for a ride on a nice schooner, so we did. It was a gorgeous day, Capt. Kat was driving, it was great to catch up with her, and we had an absolutely splendid sail. We got a special treat in that the Transat Bakerly race fleet was beginning to arrive, and the first arrivals were slated to have some exhibition racing off the Battery; we were a little too early for the actual racing (the next Adirondack sail was going to have a great show!) but we did get to see some of the giant multihulls prowling about the Upper Harbor, which was very cool. I'd forgotten to put a card in my camera, but TQ had his phone along so we took turns with that; some of these are mine, some are his. We splurged on steak at the Knickerbocker Grill in the Village afterwards and all in all it was just a spectacular day!

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