Happy New Year

 

Today January 5 2018 I have been thinking about 2017. The year started off in Nassau Bahamas and we were having a great adventure sailing into the unknown. We had learned a lot sailing from Oakville to Florida but now we were going to learn a lot more than we expected. Every day was a new adventure and every day meant more work to do on the boat. We were fixing and cleaning trying to keep the boat in the best condition that was possible. We were always making improvements on board to keep up with the new challenges ahead. We spent New Years Eve with our new friends Jack and Diane and Tom and Louise. As we traveled through the Bahamas together we experienced beautiful beaches, great weather, grocery stores with expensive and very little food and bad weather squalls. We met a lot of wonderful people in the Bahamas and we were sad we had to move on and leave all our new friends behind. But we new we had a great adventure ahead of us. We had a bad time trying to leave the Bahamas with a steering problem but we over came that problem. Arriving in the Turks and Cacaos we met more wonderful people as we waited for another weather window to move on to the Dominican Republic. Sailing through the Dominican and Puerto Rico was more difficult than we thought but we made it and learned a lot more about sailing through the islands. Sailing from Puerto Rico to St Martin was a little easier but still a challenge. The lose of our boat Mauna Kea is still in our minds and we will never forget what happened September 6 2017. There was nothing we could do but to move forward so now we visit family in Australia and heal from our lose. When we arrive home we will look for a place to live and start over again. We know we have had a great lose but we also have to look back at our experiences and be grateful for what we have experienced. We will look forward to 2018 and I know this will be a great year.