Our new mainsail and the remaining charts for our route showed up today. I hardly even noticed; I was working in my basement office when an e-mail popped up, claiming that the chart order I had put in last week had been delivered at 2:37PM."What nonsense," I thought, "I''ve been right here the whole time." But I wandered upstairs and looked on the front porch, and there they were, with the sail sitting beside them as an added bonus.
One of the great mysteries of the universe is why it is that you can never, once having unpacked a new, professionaly packed sail, get it back in the bag in the same compact shape that it came in. I'm always amazed when they show up in a box that is smaller than some of my electronic items come in.
We should have had the sail a month ago--I ordered it in late March from The Sailwarehouse, who we have had good luck with in the past. It didn't show up, didn't show up, and I thought, well, of course it isn't here as fast as the last one, dummy, you ordered that one in the fall when everyone is putting things away for the winter and this one in the spring when everyone is getting ready to go sailing again, they're probably slammed. But even so... I gave them a call Tuesday and it turned out they had the sail there and ready, but somehow my name hadn't been attached to the order, so it had never shipped. Doh! They were very apologetic and overnighted it at their own expense. We don't really need it until we leave in mid-May but I was hoping to have it before we head to Port Townsend next week.
The charts are heavy; Mandy is going to have to reinforce the chartholder she made for me, or I'm going to have to stow some of them elsewhere, or both! It's nice to have a bundle of them which I don't have to correct, though!
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