It would have been a nice time to depart

This morning was when we would have been heading north if Mandy's work had not intervened at the last minute. I got up early to help her load some stuff for her presentation into the car. It was surprisingly warm out, cloudy, but dead calm and quiet out on the water. The floats were damp but it wasn't raining at all, and the tide was up, higher than normal, which makes for a nice ebb current to ride out north. All in all, it would have been a perfect time to head out, even without wind. In fact, sometimes I like to start out without any, to get out on the water and see the glassy calm stretching off into the distance, broken only by our own wake.

All in all, it would have been just about a perfect time to get going. We'll see how things are looking Tuesday night.