My friend Calder, his wife Starr, and their two-year old daughter, Stella came out from Utah to visit us this weekend. Calder and I have been friends since about elementary school, and have managed to keep in touch all these years. He went sailing to Mexico years ago, and is currently rebuilding a Bristol Channel Cutter that is stored in his barn, so when we got Prudence he seemed like the perfect person to come aboard and help Jared with some small projects. Jared has been wanting to climb the mast and check things out, and since he's also a rock climber Calder brought along one of his climbing harnesses and winched Jared right up to the top of the mast. I love how Jared looks like he's clutching on to the mast in these photos :) Our anchor light isn't working, so he's going to have to get back up there one of these days and get to work. We had a great time with the Stratfords, beautiful sailing weather, and Stella and Parker played really well together. It was a fun visit, hopefully we'll all be back out on the water together again some day!
