Happy Holidays from the Crew of Schooner Maggie B

The crew of the Schooner Maggie B are mostly on holiday break, though Curtis is holding the fort in Buenos Aires. He has sent our mainsail out to North Sails Argentina to fix some tears and delamination. We hope to be able to get a diesel mechanic by to help us troubleshoot the Onan generator, which hasn’t been working too well. The autopilot was carried home to Chicago and FedEx’ed to Furuno North American to get overhauled.

We have a first draft of a Schooner Maggie B work song to help us raise the sail and do any “haul” work. Traditional sea shanties were both work songs (Way, hay, up she rises) as well as “fo’c’stle” songs which were more for straight enjoyment (Shenandoah). Here’s ours:

The Maggie B’s around the Horn
Homeward Bound, Hooray!

What care we for wind and weather

When we get our pay?

The Pisco Sour is our drink,

Which we learned in Chile.

Williwaw’s do blow us around

Glaciers make our day.

Reef her up and reef her down, boys,

It’s our time to play.

The Maggie B’s around the Horn,

Homeward Bound, Hooray!

Comments and advice encouraged!

I have just looked at our web statistics for the Schooner Maggie B web site. I’m quite astounded:

Successful requests since last February 2007 are 1,939,211 including 35,017 in the last week.

Successful requests for pages: 1,099,649, including 17,788 in the last week.

During December we served 2,183 Distinct Hosts.

There are a lot of wonderful people interested in the trip!

Merry Christmas to all!