family sailing adventure blog with vlog
I think we’re about finally done with interior tweaking, and I’m soo happy with that. We have a fine dusting of sawdust all over the boat. Wishing it was snow, but alas, sawdust.
Crew’s new bed turned out fabulous! Check it out, it was a cupboard and now a bed.
Here’s the before, under the port berth is a cupboard. We removed this cupboard to make room for Crew.
The kids love their area in the bow. I came across a rope ladder in a local toy store, awesome! [Read more…]
We were in such a rush to get down here that Capri missed a very important dental appointment back in Maine. Well, technically she never missed it, they just couldn’t fit her in until after the New Year. WHAT!? I called to make an appointment and they couldn’t fit her in until 3 months down the line, that’s ridiculous. Oh and they requested that I come alone with her, not with my other two. Really?!
So I wasn’t that disappointed when I told them they we would not be returning for their services.
Instead I opted to risk taking her to a dentist in the Caribbean. Gasp!
Dental Clinic – Marigot, St. Martin
Time has been racing by down in the Caribbean, how many sleeps until Christmas? Yikes!
kids helping daddy clean out under the cockpit
Our dockage ends here on the 21st so we are rushing to get work done. The marina here has an AWESOME pool and when one of us needs to make a mess of the boat the other takes the kids off to their daily jaunt to the pool.
This morning we got our school work out of the way first thing – we don’t follow the calendar here, any day is a good school day as long as momma is happy.
Afterwards the kids helped us out with some chores, lunch, then off to the pool for some fun.
We decided to catch the sunset at the Sunset Bar, rightly named, and watch the planes come in. We finished the day off with some Mexican and a beer.
This is what Sundays are all about, when we remember it’s Sunday.
I’ve been excited to see our new (to us) sailboat for so long I never thought the day would come. As time always does it clocked around and we flew out of Portland, Maine without a hiccup.
The kids were amazing on the flight, and Carl behaved too. When we got into Saint Maartin we were hit with a wall of heat and humidity. Hooly Dooly, we woke to a dusting of snow in Portland and found ouselves beading with sweat less than 8 hours later in the Carribean.
the view from our hotel room in Portland, Maine. Our house is 2 hours north.
The first night was miserable, the girls couldn’t sleep because of the heat and Crew woke every hour screaming – turns out he picked up a bug from the flight. [Read more…]
It’s a little crazy around here, our little Maine house is lacking floor space. We have 4 sleeps until we fly to Saint Martin on Monday.
We don’t have mountains of clothes, they all fit in one case but it’s the power tools, toys, homeschool books and foul weather gear that has taken up all our space. [Read more…]
Change of plan, fancy that. Originally, Carl was to fly down to the Caribbean and bring our new Abeona north to Florida where we would all move aboard and make her home but once in St. Maartin Carl didn’t see why we were going to sail her so many miles in the wrong direction, I concurred. Sadly Sean, our friend who flew down to help Carl deliver our boat, only found this out once he arrived in the steamy Caribbean. Sorry Sean.
Sean and Carl for the last few weeks have been working on the boat getting her ready for our arrival. The head has been replaced, the pilot house made into the master cabin and a really expensive dinghy was purchased – man does it look fine!
Carl came home today after 3 weeks of being apart, giddy like a school boy about the projects he has completed. We are going to try and book flights tomorrow and spend our final days or weeks in Maine packing up the house, winterizing it and tying up loose ends.
We are all excited for the next chapter of our voyaging lives to commence. This time around we are going to be smarter. [Read more…]
