Kennedy and MYA

[Stu Fyfe]

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081113/NEWS/811130310

Hope she holds together for the trip south. I think this is the first time she's been trucked any distance. Looks like Ted is gonna squeeze as much time in on the water as he can. Hopefully this is not an indication of his medical condition.

[Ian McColgin]

I'm sure Mya will be fine. Reveler was pretty beat up from two hurricanes and a sinking when trucked Florida to Karl's.

Delivery sailing is great fun. I especially like taking an owner new to larger boat management - not a lot of delivery types like having an owner aboard and really a long shore trip is not so tough for a sailor of moderate experience, especially heading north.

However, the trip south is always harder than the trip up and not especially fun or cost-effective for a deep draft boat on the Inter-Coastal. Over-land transport is actually easier on the boat and in the end often costs less.

[Concordia...41]

If faced with a similar situation, I can only hope to be as blessed / lucky / full of life / whatever...


Kennedy had brain tumor surgery in May at Duke University Medical Center. An avid sailor, the senator spent many hours this summer aboard the blue-hulled Mya while recuperating from chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

On his first day back on the Cape after undergoing the surgery, Kennedy, his wife and their two dogs boarded the Mya — a 50-foot-long Concordia schooner —for a sail across Nantucket Sound.

Less than two weeks later, the senator and his crew sailed his boat in the 37th annual Figawi, a race between Hyannis and Nantucket. With his wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and Sen. Chirstopher Dodd, D-Conn., aboard, the Kennedy crew garnered a second-place finish in the five-boat division.