Hi, Richard!

I am glad to see you survived another sailboat adventure. From the luck
you are having, which might be seen either as good or bad, you and
Alice seem fated to survive the sailing experience, dodgey engine or
no.

Those waters you have survived border the graveyard of the Atlantic,
and thanks God, the sea let you live. Your accomplishment is another
in a long line of accomplishment that illustrates the adventurous
spirit that has made man the most successful lifeform on the planet, if
a little excess can be overlooked for a while, and if providence and
chance can be trusted a little longer.

I'm certain you will come to see the experience as a happy one.

Can we hope to see you again, perhaps this year? Or do you now hunger
for the deeper blue, and farther shores? Would you like to sail down
and then up a waterfall?

Hope to see you at our Wednesday night jam. We have been getting some
real talent, and I would like another dose of your ivory tickling. Do
chellists jam?

Terry K