Well here we go again. Bought an island packet in 2020 and have been “hudlowing” it up for the ride to the coast and beyond. (hudlowing is a term used for “it is already in great shape but i can improve this”) We are installing the watermaker this week and will be leaving on November the 8th 2021 Monday. Our boating friends Barry and Andrea will be sailing away with us in their awesome sailboat “Caretta”.

We have been working since 2012 when we came back on the Unwinder from our first sailing adventure! I should have called the blog “a boat a book and a (many prayers)prayer”. I have been spending a lot of time with my grandson while taking care of things at Hudlow Axle and of course our Rottie Dana. She will be staying at home with a sitter while we are gone. While being semi retired we finally decided lets go back to the ocean on a sailboat. SSOOO we decided to go to Kema Texas and check out the Island Packett 41 SP Cruiser. So we checked it out came home went back and bought it and had a mini adventure coming up the GICW from Kema, Texas to Mobile, Al to home.

I just wanted to welcome everyone back to the blog and hang with us on our many adventures with the “Big Moose”! We will be traveling down the Tennessee river to the Ten Tom Bigbee to the Black Warrior and to Mobile bay. And from there who knows? Thanks for checking out the blog!

Captains Log: Improving a boat is making many new brackets! OH and a pimped out dinghy is a must.