A Shout Out to Captain Ron – Green Turtle, Bahamas, March 26, 2022

What was the last time you have been challenged?  I mean when your life didn’t look like the dunkin’ donuts guy (“time to make the donuts” sound familiar?) or a scene from Joe vs. the Volcano?  We made a lot of changes this year, and while voluntary, they were a lot.  I need to call out Sailing Hubby who took on ensuring all these fun, awesome changes didn’t kill us.

Sailing Hubby was the one who was up every hour when it was windy overnight, always checking the mooring lines for chaffing, learning the weather models and watching WINDY for the next storm, knew where my purse-phone-and shoes were more often than I did, fixed everything from the inverter to the plumbing, managed the immigration process since the captain has to check the boat in and out, always knew the tide and current, contacted the marina to arrange the mooring at the next port, balancing his consulting gig, took watch even when it was raining (we have no surround :().  He did all this and more non-stop for our entire trip.

It ended up being more than he bargained for in many ways.  The weather specifically, learning to dock a boat much bigger than he was used to in very tight spots next to very expensive vessels. 

So, let me ask you…when was the last time you took on a life change this big and let yourself be new and frankly bad at something until you learned to do it right?  Well, I will get to find out very soon as I will be doing many more of these activities as we make more and longer crossings.  I can only hope I get as much of it right as he has.

Thank you Sailing Hubby and Happy 9^th Anniversary!