Month: June 2016
My Great (mis)Adventure
June 21, 2016
I’ve been a little ambivalent about cruising; I mean I like the idea of living on a boat, going where the wind takes us, etc. but I’ve never spent more than a week on a boat. I moved onto the boat on June 1 and quickly fell into the routine. We left a little later […]
In The Beginning, We Learned Many Things
Our departure was fairly uneventful, and we like it that way. Unfortunately, we missed getting to see Jess at the Galveston Yacht basin, but we were otherwise fine with slipping out of Galveston Bay with little fan fair or excitement. That’s not to say we didn’t have a great departure. A small pod of dolphins […]
Our Initial Departure
June 16, 2016
The best laid plans and all that. Despite claiming that we would not allow boat projects to delay our departure, we are leaving three days after our initial date. To be fair, it’s not all due to boat projects. But the frame for the solar panels was certainly NOT seaworthy. After the initial plan to […]
The Storm Before the Calm
June 6, 2016
It started exactly three weeks before our planned departure date. My stress levels elevated along with anxiety. It seemed like every day I worked all day long, only to realize the list was longer at the end of the day than at the beginning. In the process of completing one job, we remembered two (or more) […]