Our breakfast friend

Had a Guest at the house last Saturday.

We had Guests at the house last Saturday.  There is a 80 foot oak tree next door that has been home for a breeding pair of hawks this last few years.
Well this year both fledglings landed out front  before they could fly.  One was terrorizing the neighbors so I got it and put it on the roof where the parents could keep an eye on it.  Just before dark I found the other behind the wood pile so I put it on top of the bird feeder so the cats in the area could not get it.  Next morning it was on the porch steps then moved to one of the chairs while my wife and I had our coffee and tea.

Speaking of wire.

I am thinking of replacing the standing rigging with 2.5 mm Dyneema SK-90 fiber, it looks as though it only costs 15% more the wire.

Lost the rig overboard a fer weeks back.

I lost the rig overboard three weeks ago ( 0ne if the Nico press (3/32 wire) fittings failed) as luck would have it there was no one around for the mast to land on.
Pulled the sail off the mast and lashed everything to the boat, and the RC gave me a tow in.
A few days later we went to Eastern Shore MD to move my brothers boat and my wife went down to apsltd.com to pickup some tools and fittings for me. The next week after racing, I was waiting for my son to come up to the lake to sail and while I was waiting I put my phone on the tramp. while I removed the GPS and you can guess what happened next...
All my photos of the rig failure went overboard!