Boat Life

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We have gone to many different places, and lots of them have had beaches. At the beaches before we got to Florida, sometimes we would have a walk, or a sunset stroll, maybe we would go wading since the tide went out, but we never would get to really swim. I think that is because of two things: it was too cold for swimming, and the swimsuits were just packed away in vacuum-sealed bags. Once we got to Florida we anchored a lot, at Destin, Panama City, Big Lagoon near Pensacola. But at all those places, we never really got to go swimming, until Port St. Joe and Eagle Harbor.

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Since we moved onto the boat in mid February, I have been wondering, is the weather always like this? It seems colder and windier more often. But I think we are just experiencing the weather more than we do in our climate controlled lives. Read a little more about the weather's impact on us in this article.

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Then you're not on a boat. Haha. We met a couple at a marina in Gulf Shores--they are retired and live in Nebraska but keep their boat down here. After the wife showed us the bathrooms and we returned to their boat (a powerboat), the husband said there had been a disaster while she was gone but that he'd handled it. He chuckled and said, just another day with a boat. We could relate! When your home is jostling around in the damp all the time, things are bound to break. Read more about what we've encountered two weeks in.

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Let’s start at the beginning. We are a family who are on a journey of a lifetime: sailing to the Bahamas! We have been preparing our boat, a Catalina 42, for this trip for many months. The boat is far from homey, but is cozy, and is slowly getting to that point! Right now we are in Slidell, yesterday we sailed across Lake Pontchartrain!

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