Happy to be Home

Written by Christine

Woo hoo! Finally in our permanent slip at Herrington! We realized this weekend that since May 1st we have been in 7 slips. In the past whenever we would leave our slip for the day I would always be nervous at what was sure to be a disastrous event but now I hardly flinch. We have moved so much lately into new slips that didnt have lines ready and waiting for us. Joey is really getting good at going slowly enough not to freak me out that we are going to put a hole in an innocent boat parked next to us. He's not whipping around turns anymore trying to pull a captain Ron. ;)




Sadly we don't have any exciting sailing stories from the weekend to share since we are still waiting on our engine part from Japan.



This weekend everything we did at Herrington, we kept saying

'this one moment here is better than a whole summer at Liberty'.

'A rainy day at herrington...'

'This beautiful walk to our boat'..

'Seeing our friends...'

' This delicious and free feast/party Herrington put on Saturday night...'

'This clean bathroom...'

'This water you don't need a shower after you touch..'



ahhh! Bliss!



Now onto more pressing manners. We need AC. We need CHEAP AC. Our cats are sweating. I'm not sure how, but I'm pretty sure they are sweating. They are definitely panting like dogs. So are we. I know, I know, we can buy the nifty hatch AC units for like 500-1000 bucks, but we're not going to. What ways have you used to cool your boat? We installed some fans but that isn't enough and while we're on shore power why should we suffer?

Hey guys - why so quiet? Why didn't you tell us commenting didn't work? Hahaha. Have no fear, Christine is here. (Commenting is fixed).

We're Still Here

Well we moved actually, but the Bright Eyes adventure continues. Sorry for the delay in posting but we've been really busy with everything.  We got our engine working long enough to limp back to Herrington Harbor North. Yes that's right, we are back in Deale! We've decided to move our Caribbean launch date back into spring of 2011.  This will allow us to get more experience and take our time on our remaining projects and to actually enjoy each others company instead of being in overdrive boat frenzy mode.  With the Nov 1st date looming and still alot of major projects to do like the Solar and Wind Power, we were just too stressed out and there was no time for fun.  So we are making more us time and enjoying our time still here in the States.  We will still go cruising some time next year, circa May 2011.

Since we have another year here, we moved back to our beloved HHN and left Liberty, the marina we've nicknamed 'the place where boat's go to die'.  It was just too overcrowded with liveaboards and we would guess that over half of the boats there havn't left their slip in over a year.


So stay with us a lil longer stateside as we have some new ideas and projects for the upcoming year.  Things should get interesting before we even head off!




more later.

-Joey