April 2, 2017   1, 0.2  Colorado Cat Voyage Date

Today was another stay in port day.  The big difference was that is was "we ant to,

not we have get something fixed or looked at".  Much much nicer.  Made arrangement for

a rental car, and will head back to Clearwater tomorrow.  The weather reports sound like we are leaving at just the right time.  A cold front is blowing in and will be here all week.  The

yacht club was packed last night with all the boats slips full of every size and shape of boat.

Come to find out they were having a "Blessing of the fleet" this afternoon.  It was interesting to

watch.  We didn't get the boat officially blessed but hopefully some of the holy water floated onto our boat.  The priest and his 2 alter boys got into a boat and went out into the river.  Everybody jumped in their boat and went out and surrounded the priest.  The small sailboats from the sailing school came out

and then the blessings began.  First the sailing school boats got in line and sailed around the priest's boat and 

then one by one the boats circled the priest's boat and came back into the yacht club.  All together there were about 40 boats and it took about 2 hours.  Afterwords they all went to the bar and had drinks. 

We hung out on our boat and watched and of course had a couple drinks too. Not sure if I will write

the blog while we are off the boat.  So if you don't see it, not to worry, we will be back April 9th with more exciting tales from the Adventures of the Colorado Cat. 

 

Blessing of the boats

sailing school boats

Penny writing her blog