I still have a fever, and a deep, deep cough, WTF! Took Tylenol, slept a few extra this morning, thank you Steve! We sailed from 0800 to 1600, oh so wonderful! To sail in the quiet, enjoying the quiet, and each others company in said quiet. And then…no wind, nothing, dead calm. OK, back to …
First morning at sea
First sunrise at sea Good morning after our first night at sea. After leaving the Sunset Bay Marina gas dock yesterday, where we waited out a rain storm, we wove our way along the St Lucie River and to the Stuart Inlet, then out to sea. This morning we are about 70 miles off shore …
Stuart Florida to USVI attempt #1
Today is the day!!! We’re ship shape, things securely stowed. An anchor, newly assembled and onboard (more on that later). We have met some nice people at Sunset Bay Marina. Sailors Jay and Erika with their sweet dog Mia. Dave and Trudy on Terrapin (a trawler) and their dogs. We have also met a few …
Up the river
After launching Harmony, we moved all of our items from temporary storage onboard, including the crew. We left the Hinckley Yard and motored to Sunset Bay Marina, literally up the river (the St. Lucie river) to familiarize ourselves with the boat further and to do some minor fixes and provisioning for our intended voyage to …
Launch Day
Launch day at the Hinckley Boat Yard in Stuart, Florida. Thanks to Chuck Ruble, Robby Kessel, and his team: Pablo, Jim, Troy; Fred Anderson and his team: Ted; along with Eric Hruska, Vanessa Gopal and the rest of the Hinckley staff. You folks are awesome and we appreciate the professionalism and courtesies that you extended …
Renaming the boat
Well, it is now April 30th, Harmony has had her graphics applied, and she is going in the water tomorrow! We are still at the Hampton Inn, our 2 weeks ran into 4+ weeks, the staff knows us by name, have all heard the story about the boat. It will be nice to check out …
The trip to the boat
Early morning March 28th we are up and at the house. We have said our farewells to friends and neighbors, Dianne and Dick, Jan and Gordon. Gordon a fellow sailor who encouraged us to go for it and enjoy the sailing life. Gordon was hard to say goodbye to, since it is goodbye. (we later …
Amy bon voyage get together
Happy retirement and bon voyage party with my peeps March 16th. Janae, Schell, Falisha, Tony, Ann, Steve and I. Such fun, I’ll really miss them all so much. March 17th, spent the day with Susan, my soul sister. Oh my heart is heavy knowing it will be a very long time until I see my …
Will it sell???
We called Maggie Diamond, a local real estate agent to list the house. Maggie popped right over, went through things with us and we decided on our asking price. We have gotten such good advise on how to go about “down sizing” from Maggie. What a great resource she is turning out to be. A …
We have our boat !
Yippee Civil Twilight is ours, lets get this show on the road people. Oh wait, we have to sell everything, where do we start, who do we call??? Auction houses want to have people trooping through the house, bidding on and haggling over our possessions. We’re not crazy about strangers trooping through the house. We’ll …
Harmony At Sea 