Who could have known that a band of merry rowers, a team called the Gray Buzzards, could have sustained rowing once a month (sometimes more than once monthly…but only one counts!) around Butler Light outside of New Bedford Harbor for 144 consecutive months? Squared, that’s 12 years, through heat, ice, snow, cold and some might say common sense! But not us. And a few treasured teammates who made many of the monthly roundings could not be with us today due to other life events, but they were with us in Spirit, for sure. Stand by, with luck and health, for rounding #200!

An added treat for us on this early morning of December 5, 2015, was that the Mayflower (a replacer of the original of 1620) was in route from Plymouth MA to Mystic CN, for winter repairs, etc. She was under escort from the tug Jaguar, having spent the night in New Bedford Harbor due to winds from the day before. So it was sheer luck that we on our 144th Butler Light rounding had a chance to follow her, the Mayflower, out of the harbor.

(If you are surfing in from afar and reading this, we are a team that is a part of Whaling City Rowing… http://www.whalingcityrowing.org…located in New Bedford, MA USA)