Cruising in Seraffyn

8/26/07 – Chris and Mike picked me up early this morning in their van. We picked up Michael Donahue and began the drive up to Salem, MA. There is a classic wooden boat show up there and Mike has a friend named George who owns Seraffyn, a wooden boat with an amazing history. She was built by a couple named Lynn and Larry Pardee and they sailed her around the world and wrote several books about their voyages. George wanted to bring his boat back to Scituate Harbor so Mike and I were going to sail down there with him. We got to the marina in Salem and looked ate some of the old wooden boats for a little while and then got on Seraffyn and cast off. As we were cruising out of the harbor, Mike called in to a radio program called Captain Lou’s Nautical Talk. He handed me the phone and I was interviewed live on the air about my sailing trip. We continued to sail through a relatively light breeze and finally had to turn on the engine about half way to Scituate because of a lack of wind. We got back to Scituate Harbor in the late afternoon and George dropped Mike and I off at the apartment where we met Chris, the other Mike, and Mi Sun. We all ate pizza and talked for quite a while and they asked me to show them some pictures of my sailing trip. We were all sitting on the couch looking through some photos when Chris shouted, “Go back! We [her father and her] built that boat!” I went back to a photo that my dad took in Connecticut of a neat looking tug boat and sure enough, it was one of four in the world that they had built. They eventually all left and I went to bed.