Good News

We visited Sandpiper in the boatyard in Deltaville, Virginia and found that she was in better shape that we had imagined after our year away from her. Frankie did a beautiful job repairing a crack and repainting the stern and she is ready to have her name reapplied. We learned that our bodies are still flexible enough to get the boat work done and we are planning to get back on the water sometime in the next few months. Back at home in Geneva, IL Loy had a melanoma removed from his elbow and then a sentinel node biopsy on Nov. 5, 2010 to see if it had spread through the lymph system. The biopsy came up clean and we are very optimistic that we will be sailing again sometime in the next few months! Earlier in the week Linda interviewed Loy for the Story Corps about his work with Dr. Martin Luther King in Dallas and on the march to Montgomery. That has gone into the files of the Geneva History Center and the Library of Congress. We signed releases for National Public Radio, but don't know when or not the interview will be played there.