No more daysails!

Tomorrow we leave for Cleveland and then Put-in-Bay, and I couldn't be happier to be not doing daysails for awhile.
We've been doing daysails pretty much every day since I got here, which is nice except that daysails are much more work than just sailing. A lot of the work of sailing is getting ready to go and then getting back into port and all that entails (chafe gear, doubling up docklines, harbor furling, etc. etc.), so when we're sailing for days on end there's none of that to worry about. There's also time off watch. Perhaps I'm just remembering an idealized version of being out sailing for days at a time, but I'm still looking forward to it. If for no other reason, sleeping in a hammock while the ship is rolling is infinitely better than when it's stable, and no matter how cold and miserable the morning watch was, seeing the sunrise, smelling the woodsmoke start up and getting to eat and then sleep is a treat. No matter how torturous it might seem at the moment.

In any case, it'll be fun to get out on the water for real. Can you tell I'm excited? :D