December 26, 2012
Tom asked why the stripes at the top of Legacy’s mast? Here is what I told him:
1. To be able to spot our boat out in the bay, as in this typical conversation on any given night at a local watering hole: “It’s startin’ to blow, how’s our boat doing?”
2. With all the alcohol we seem to consume while cruising, it’s handy for finding our way back to the correct boat.
3. It makes it easy to give directions as in “Bring the case of wine to E dock and drop it off at the boat with the blue stripes at the top of the mast… you can’t miss it.”
We’ve only seen two other boats with strips on the mast, both in New Zealand and one on our old dock (that we’re moving back to tonight). Joking aside, they’ve been really handy for both spotting our own boat among a multitude of masts and in helping others find us.
-Rich
