Flying home today to take care of business and take care of appointments. This will be our last trip home for 4months. I will miss my family, friends, and my puppies, but the sea is calling us! Steve is working at shop today and I went to the print shop to inquire out getting boat cards made. Headed back home Steve called and we rode to music store in Rossville Mikes Music. Bought a great harmonica and some guitar strings so Steve can jam out on the boat!

Ok getting ready to go home for a couple of days to take care of some personal business and see our family and friends before we leave again for 4 months. Steve is going to buy some much needed safety equipment ( never knew we needed so much). Glad that we are getting it though. The ocean she is an unforgiving mistress! No matter how big your boat is its about the size of an atom on the highway, when your in the ocean. Never can be too  safe. I have been cleaning boat inside and reorganizing some things as well as washing clothes today. Steve came back and had bought us two chairs for the boat that we can sit on deck with and read a book or just get sun. And bought some storage hammocks for us. Cant wait to set sail again with my Captain! Loving the water life dont know if i will ever want to be on land again.

Today is a great day for sailing so Steve and I took off to practice our rough weather techniques for reefing sails and coming about in high winds. It was a beautiful day we went about 40 miles offshore so we were out there all day. We ate lunch on the boat of tuna fish and pickles. Time flies when your working the sails and it is hard work in the winds. On the lake pulling in the headsail and reefing the main weren’t hard but on the ocean it takes a lot more muscle in the wind to work the sails. I am still learning all the terms and boat parts but i am getting there. I love the work and the challenge of being quick and thinking fast. I did well at the end of the day with coming about quickly so we dont lose momentum. Steve is going to put some hooks on boat for my sheets and a piece for us to hook on to the front of boat with our life jackets when weather gets rough. It was a wonderful day and we had a ball. We had the boat heeled over almost to the rubrail and we were told that if we had held it in that position and the rudder came up the boat will do a 360 and upright itself to the neutral position.We hadnt checked that out yet. On our way back we had to maneuver between so  many crab pots its like a maze out there. The channel is very narrow and we had to be very careful and on the way back we landed on a sandbar it was like slamming the brakes on a car to a dead stop! Steve maneuvered us off the sandbar with a little rock and roll. He is a very good captain and i am so proud of him. He is going to buy some more parts tomorrow to improve our boat and make it safer. Chicken and macaroni for dinner, we are going to turn in to macaroni. We have a bird right outside our boat sitting on the same pole everynight and it flies down to the mooring lines attached to it. He is my watchbird. I will try to upload his picture.

Happy New Years Eve everyone! Toda! Steve worked on the boat batteries, they get little askew in rough weatheru! We ha get together on the dock today on the boat cruiser the NANCEANN, what a beautiful boat i love the interior with the comfy chairs inside. The bedrooms are very big and i think the bed is a king in master not sure. It is a beautiful calm neutral colors. Rick and Nancy great wonderful people and I love their dog Sadie, she is a black mtn cur. The boat has a very nice kitchen, deck, salon, and helm. Everyone had a great time. We have some wonderful people here, I love them all. They are always willing to help. Jackie does Yoga and I hope she gets to feeling better so we can do that at the dock. We are going sailing tomorrow. Then home for 3 days and then gone for 4mths. We celebrated for a few hours then back to boat for food. There were beautiful fireworks at the beach at midnight. After they finished we went to sleep. Happy New Year Everyone!!!!