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.