Jib Notes

Break-Out-Another-Thousand. Evidently we have purchased a hole in the water into which we get to throw all of our money... or so the cliché claims. These are both sayings I've heard plenty of times before, but somehow they feel all the more real when you begin to live it.

Living on the our new sailboat has been quite nice so far.  Our marina is beautiful and the people are friendly despite the fact that most are of the older, yuppy variety.  It has been especially nice running in to people who tell us how beautiful our sailboat is.:)  One of the nicest features of the marina is its location.  It is great to be in walking distance from everything.  Car? What car?  We have a car?

There were five of us on our first trip with the Tillicum.  Tina and Tim joined Jamie, myself, and our cat, Quixote.  Tina graduated with Jamie from the University of St. Augustine.  Tim was a captain we hired on the recommendation of our broker, and whom we were all very grateful was along for this trip.  He proved himself fully during the day, and we plan to hire him again to help us learn as much as we can during these first few weeks while preparing for our upcoming trip.

We have officially purchased our boat today, with the final paperwork signed. Tomorrow's the big day, we're driving up to St. Petersburg and sailing the boat ~10 hours south to Marina Jacks in Sarasota where we'll be living for the next month and a half. We'll be putting lots of time and energy into learning our new boat, and preparing for a bigger trip south to the Bahamas.