A Plan is Coming Together – Hopetown, Bahamas, March 22, 2022

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A Plan is Coming Together – Hopetown, Bahamas, March 22, 2022

It has been a productive few days, and we leave tomorrow for Green Turtle to stage for a Monday crossing to Florida.  The weather looks good, and it appears now like we have a 4-day window to make it to St. Augustine without much turbulence.  This is extremely important to have calm waters as we cross to keep the sail membrane from further damage.

 

Ron has been working on multiple routes so if we need to make this sail a bit shorter, and not do a long run direct to St. Augustine, we have the option to bail out somewhere like West End, Fort Pierce, or Cape Canaveral.  We also increased our coverage with Tow boat USA which can come get us within 50 miles of the Florida coast.  It is kind of like AAA for boats.    

 

Our next step after we get to Green Turtle

·         go to Sail Cay (50 miles) and spend the night

·         leave for Florida at dawn the next morning to Florida (42 hours at 6 knots – so roughly 2 days from Sail Cay). 

 This will be the longest continuous sail we will have ever done, with a gimpy boat.  Well, here we go.  This is the preferred route if the seas cooperate. 

 Before we attempt our long run, we do have a few fun things on our agenda as our buddy boat is celebrating a birthday and our 10th Anniversary is coming up on March 26th!  Guess I have to keep him now 😊.

 As far as land life, we scheduled a haul out date early April, will stop in Jekyll Island for a day to visit, then head to Ohio to see Family.  After a week, we head back to Florida, and have a house rented for the following month.  This gives us a chance to work on the boat before we housesit for my parents the month after.  Sometime in there we will need to rent/buy a car or bring our motorcycle down to Florida to ride for the season.  I hope we can ride the bike since it would be much more fun than a car!  However, once again, we must have good weather to ride the bike.  Lastly, we will head out to the west coast to see daughter #1 who is renting out there.  Whew – never a dull moment!  Perhaps this will keep us young?  We are glad to have a plan as we move back towards the states.

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Hi, I'm Sally and this is my husband, Ron. I’ve been doing marketing for the last 30 years for tech companies and Ron is a biomedical engineer. Basically, he knows what he is doing and well, I don't. However, the yin and yang of our relationship is total bliss. We decided after 10 years of marriage, the joy of suburbia, and years of travelling, that this was for us. So, we saved, retired, and this is our story. We’ve taken trips to Costa Rica and love it. Nowhere on earth can you see that many masonry animal statues and not a pothole crew in site. Beautiful. Then there was Jamaica where the night before we left, I broke my big toe and was not able to go into the water. Instead, we experienced the most amazing singing bartender while drinking "Shit on the Grass." No lie. Then there was British Virgin Islands where we chartered a boat three times. Twice with just us and the final time with our 4 daughters. Man, there is no better way to hear your kids complain than in a space that small. That was some quality family time there. Now we are empty nesters, we have purchased a Leppard Catamaran and you are invited to come along for the ride. Should be a total hoot.

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