Wasn't bad at all tonight...
Just cruised back from Meredith town to Gilford...Zipped the windshirt a little higher against the cool breeze, but really not much chop at all. Just the random wake from an unknown vessel in the distance. Very dark night out there, though, requiring extra focus.
Squeezed through the Governor's - Eagle NWZ with two others but generally not much traffic.
Picked up on the big stack of white & red lights steaming toward me about a mile to the East, a point off the port bow, and as always happens when encountering the MV Mount Washington on Lake Winnipesaukee at night, got a nice little adrenalin charge.
Just because I could, I paused off Governor's and killed the engines long enough for the Mount to pass, a moving, for me almost spiritual, site on the night lake. Music from the Mount was more subdued than on those sultry summer eves- must have had the windows buttoned up on this cool dark night...
Leisurely, almost reluctantly made my way back to the security of my slip, and took a few extra minutes to make fast my lines, dousing the last lamp at about 10:30.
If that was my final cruise- it was a worthy one.
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