Two Snaps

Well... The shake down cruise went without a hitch, we have a little vibration, Pierre thinks it is the coupler or the flex plate..but both of them are not really bad, they are just a hiccup. We can fix them on the fly. We went to the shop and took the truck out again..three times is the lucky number..Right?
I think we are going to stay here till Saturday and leave out then. The weather is going to be great.
   Envie Rose did really good this time, she did not try to abandon ship.
 I think we are going to go up the East coast till hurricane season  is over, then head back to the islands, we still have a lot of work to do on the boat.

Working on my boat

We spent the holiday weekend working in the boatyard, but when it's all said and done, we got a lot done. Bill replace the main sheet wench for us ( thanks Bill) so HAPPY about that, the wench we had was way to small and it took the strength of Hercules to take the main and and out, it will be easier now with the big 54 size.
The dock we are at is on fire with wires hanging, so the bottom was ate up with electrolysis, Charlie and I worked on this while Pierre fixed the damage to the dripless. We also got to change out a leaking valve on the engine intake.
We splashed on Monday morning, big thanks to Jason at the boatyard! Got a few loose ends to tie up today, going to do shake down cruise too, just to make sure...stomach in knots...fingers and toes crossed.

Alcatraz?

Almost got out of here:( We didn't even make it to Shell Island before we had a disaster, our water flow valve failed and we burned up the dripless. We had to anchor up and call Tow Boat (Thanks Dave) so here we are back at Bay County Boatyard waiting our turn to haul out today, we will be working in on the boat this holiday weekend. Yes...I had a good cry...but all things happen for a reason, we may not know why, but I truly believe it.
 On the plus side we did forget some key items, so I can retrieve them and go ahead and do laundry, oh the joy of cruising life, I love it!

Good Morning

This is what I saw when I went out to the cockpit this morning. (This life is hard!).  Went to Sams today and bought them out. Still on track to leave tomorrow. Super excited...now the packing of the stuff begins...sigh

OMG

The back of the truck

So much stuff.. I want to know who said " getting ready is half the fun"..they lied.. Codi called and we met Sharon, Skip, and Matt for lunch at Finns, it is a super cool little get a way in St Andrews, (the food is great). Thank you again..Sharon for lunch...so glad to see ya'll before we leave...Then we went to the shop and loaded the truck up and now the lazarette is slam full, still have a ton of stuff on deck and in the cockpit. (Going to have to start unloading stuff overboard) LOL. We hope to be out of here Friday morning and sail to St. Joe.. We are going to stay there thru the holiday weekend and then set out for Crystal River. I got my Redi-Set-Go cooker today and I made pizza on it I love this thing.

Done

Bobs Boat

Here it is...DONE!  Yes, now we going to devote this week to getting the last things on board and getting out of here!! Tomorrow Pierre is getting his bloodwork done and his new crown. Sweet...

Learning how to use this dang thing

I went to Codi's house this afternoon and with the help of Halo, we made made naan bread. I have to say this...I am going to miss my daughter so much, she is my BFF.

Working at the shop getting my brother-in-laws boat ready to go into the water..almost done. Got all the stuff out of the shop and onto the boat, I think she sank into the water at least an inch. Pierre still has to get his welding stuff on board, but other than that we are set to go. Hopefully the dentist will call next week and Pierre can get his new tooth.  I told Pierre we ARE leaving the following week.  We are planning on going to Port Saint Joe, so we aren't going to go to far away. I want to see how Envie Rose does on the boat before we head off on a long leg. Pierre went up the mast on a friends boat this morning to help him set his Tactic system and he took these pictures!

Rain Day

Most of the time I love rainy days, but now with us trying to get out of here, I view them as a pain in the butt.  Today was no different so as we sat in the boat looking at each other, Pierre said, lets go to Dothan. We have been talking about going to Harbor Freights to get some stuff for the boat, so off we went. We stopped at Sadie's, this really big flea market just as your coming into Dothan and I found a super little spice market....now I have all the spices I am going to need...sweet!

 

Party Sucess!!

Well the party's over ;( but it was a wonderful party and I want to thank everyone that helped make it that! The food was fab! As was the company. Thank you everyone!! We are going to try to be out of here in the next two weeks ( fingers crossed). The weather of all things has gotten cold, so are motivated to go south. Sunday was my first day at the laundry mat and I had to ask a nice young man how to use the washers! He was nice about it and didn't laugh at me:) at least not in front of me, but on a positive note, I know how to use the washers now.