Countdown to Cruising #9 Nine months and counting. It seems as if the closer we get to launch, the more hectic life is becoming. Frantically, we have been putting in 12 hour days fixing up our house to get it on the market. We have rebuilt entire rooms, fixed items that have gone years in…
10 months until takeoff. It hardly seems real. In fact, reality really hasn’t hit yet as we still go through the daily grind of going to work, fixing up the house, taking care of animals. The pictures of my children still hang on the walls, markers and reminders of the 30 years we spent in…
For those following our adventures, I wanted to share this story. It is a difficult story for me to tell but I feel it is important in that it makes a statement as to just how blessed Dan and I really are. I guess my biggest hesitation is that I won’t do it justice. In…
“I’m not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer – I’m a dragon irritator.” Craig Ferguson Our first dragon was in the form of an impending storm forging down the Gulf Stream, the route we were planning to sail our newly purchased Taswell 43 from Brunswick, Georgia to New Bern, North Carolina. It…
“Always remember, it’s simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.” Sarah Ban Breathnach The first dragon appeared to us in the form of an impending storm forging down the Gulf Stream, the route we were planning to sail our newly purchased Taswell 43 from Brunswick, Georgia to New Bern, North…
(For my husband, Daniel) “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.” ― Bill Watterson Dan and I were on the ultimate high following the survey of FoxSea at the Brunswick, Georgia Marina. She had been gone over with a fine-toothed comb and passed with flying colors. At the end…
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” Christopher Reeve. I was scared to breathe. I was afraid that too deep a breath would wake me from my tenuous state. Impossible had moved to improbable. Improbably was quickly moving…
“ The danger of venturing into uncharted waters is not nearly as dangerous as staying on shore, waiting for your boat to come in.” ― Charles F. Glassman It amazes me how human beings can reduce something as mighty, powerful, awe inspiring and immense as the ocean to a cheap thrill ride filled with gluttony…
Good News, Bad News… It’s All Relative It’s important to remember that setbacks, failures, and tragedy are a part of life. Whether we manage to find joy and success in the daily struggle of life is largely dependent on our ability to persevere through even the toughest adversity without ever giving up. Gilles Douaire….
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William…