Plans for 2020…..

So much has changed since our last post….. The virus has and continues to disrupt our plans. The plan for this Summer was to head to Maine after our daughters wedding on June 2Oth. And without recounting all the details, the wedding was on, off, rescheduled and then rescheduled and downsized to meet the Covid restrictions. In the end it happened on June 20th and was a wonderful, if significantly smaller event than originally planned.

We had planned to leave for Maine on July 5th and I spent the Winter making reservations and researching ports and anchorages from Plymouth, MA to Bar Harbor, ME. This plan was in part due to the wedding and in part due to construction in the Illinois River that required boaters to get through earlier than usual or much later then would normally be the case.

Boating is an ideal activity for a pandemic…. if there can be such a thing. You can restrict who comes on your boat. We can isolate on the boat given we have two heads, two showers, Air Conditioning, a full galley…… But the idea of pulling into Plymouth, MA or Salem, MA or Bar Harbor, ME leaves us uneasy. Crowds of people vying for 50% of the restaurant seats, Covid non-believers and/or those who just don’t care about the impact their refusal to wear a mask might have on others….

So we will forego the long trip for now. Maybe September will be a better time assuming children go back to school and there isn’t a big second wave…. In the meantime, we are going to take full advantage of the body of water we float on, perhaps the second best body of water on the east coast (2nd only to the Chesapeake I think) and explore all corners of Narragansett Bay!