I am writing this blog from the apartment we rented in Newark, De. we have been working very hard to make this place Home. The one thing the 3 of us realise is as hard as we try Adventuress is our Home and we will miss her. We have only 6 more weeks of boat living before we become weekenders like the rest of the boat owners at the marina we call home. We will move into the apartment on August 28th with Ava starting her new school on the 29th. We will then go to the boat the moment Ava is out of school on Friday's and stay until Sunday early evening.
The experience has been one that has us looking forward to working on the boat through the Winter fixing things that have needed it long before we bought her and things to improve her. I look back now on the days the boat was under the dock as well as the days the dock was under water both of which we could not depart the boat. The days of high winds where we stayed in our berths, the ft. of snow and more, ice,sleet etc. Walking down the dock to the warm bath house to take showers, filling the water tank in freezing cold weather, putting our freezer goods on the cabin top since our freezer compartment holds a 7 lb bag of ice and nothing more. We survived !
We will begin our sailing season this coming Sat. when family come to visit, because of so many unexpected repairs we are getting a late start. We will take the boat out from now on until we pull the boat in mid Oct. for cleaning and painting. As we left the boat tonight with our laundry and over night bags we waved Good Night to Adventuress and our 2 cats until we return Tuesday to finish the first year of our adventure.
