Next Year on the J&E Riggin

It's over a year away but daughter Nan and I have already started to plan a trip to the J & E Riggin, the Maine windjammer Schooner that we both love. We not only love the boat but all of the people that are associated with it.

Jake (middle grandchild) wants to go so we are looking at the options for this. A family cruise might just be the ticket (no pun intended).

I love race week so I might have to go twice; just don't know yet. Race week is really a lot of fun because that is when the Riggin Relics are aboard (between us there are nearly 300 trips).

Watch this blog for more postings about the J & E Riggin; as it is one of my favorite subjects.

Weather for race week on the J & E Riggin

I just checked the weather for race week. It's terrible! Showers and / or thunder storms the entire week. We won't get to sail that much but we will be with friends. What I am really worried about is that it will rain for Elizabeth's wedding. She will be totally bummed; but I bet happy too.

Can't wait to get there.

Getting ready to sail!

Race Week on the J. E. Riggin

Its getting close to race week on the J & E Riggin. My daughter, granddaughter and myself will leave on the 30th for race week. The excitement is great and growing.

Watch for blogs after our return on July 8. Pictures will be up on Flixer too.
J & E Riggin

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HRH Elizabeth II visits the US

For those of us of English decent having the Queen in the country is a special time. although my ancestors were loyalists during the Revolution we are very much American today.

I wonder how many of us reflect during her visit on our English heritage; not only our language is English but our legal system is based on English Common Law.

Section 1.101 of the Missouri Revised Statues says that English Common Law is in fact the statutory law of the State.

We know she won't be with us much longer so this is most likely her last visit to the US.

"God save the Queen"

My granddaughter is named after both of the Elizabeths.

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Thinking about Race week on the J & E Riggin

I am thinking about race week on the J & E Riggin.

My daughter Nancy; granddaughter Libby (Elizabeth; named for the queen but that is another entry) and myself are booked and confirmed for race week on the J & E Riggin Maine Adventure Sails.

My annual week on the Riggin is something I look forward to every year and my life kind of centers around that time. Someday I am going to figure out a way to make the Riggin and Maine be more than 1/52 of my time. (Living in a Democrat state is a real problem for me; I might just go there to bug 'em.)

This will be my 12 th time and Nancy and Libby 2nd time. So we are all Riggin Repeaters now. However being a Riggin Repeater is not that special; most of their passengers are Riggin Repeaters.

Race week is the week when all of the Maine Schooners get together and have a race. The race runs for the entire day and the passengers get really into it.

Of course the week includes stops at some really great Maine sea coast towns like Casteen, Stonington and other places. And then there is the Lobster shore lunch which folks really like (unfortunately I have a shell fish alergy so I have never partaken).

However I am excited and counting the days.

More later~~

Norm

Waiting on the East banks of the Missouri River

J and E Riggin out of the lifts.

The J and E Riggin is out of the lifts and back in the water. Work week is getting started. I am getting excited about this year's trip out to Rockland, ME for the great schooner race.

The Captains and the shore cordinantor are just the greatest people.