"Roger Long" wrote in
:

Yes, we're here and the welcome party is over. The delivery crew has
gone off to sleep ashore and I'm going to sleep alone aboard my latest
design for one last night before flying home tomorrow.

We went down the New Jersey coast in Wednesday's snotty weather. We
were close in but going straight into the swells with the wind and
waves abeam. This morning we bucked straight into 15 - 20 up Deleware
Bay. Both times, the delivery captain who has been on a lot of boats
said, "I can't believe we're keeping up 18 - 20 knots in this stuff
and are this comfortable." That made me fell pretty good, let me tell
you.

I'll probably do a we4b site about this trip eventually but, now, off
to bed.

--
Roger Long




Congratulations, Roger, on a job well done. It was a pleasure cruising
electronically along with you. Please thank the appropriate people who
allowed us all to ride along.

It's too bad your news is tempered with the loss of the sailboat off the
shore with loss of life.

Compliments, too, to all those hard working metal workers, welders,
enginemen and other shipyard workers who never do get the amount of credit
they deserve when they leave the docks on their maiden voyages.