However, you are the only boat without thimbled
shackles and thus are a danger to everyone else. For pitys sake and
everyone else leave now.

You may be right!
In any case, I'll double up on all lines and set up some old fenders all around
and aft. We'll see how squarley we get hit. I'm hoping the weekend is not
ruined by heavy rain or something. Suzanne says "let's go no matter what" but
I'm tired of getting rained on this year.
Meanwhile we still haven't even decided where to go.

RB