Spring!!

Now this is more like it! We got back to the boat in early April and found much better conditions than our last visit. The trees were budding (allergies went into overdrive), the marina was getting ready for their spring boat show and the weather was perfect.

Boats for sale

We got a few more projects checked off our list. One nice addition are the new name boards we had made for the running lights. Before we could add the boards we had to perform the official boat "un-naming" ceremony. Not as much fun with just 2 of us to do it but it had to be done before we could move forward. If you're interested in the process just do a quick Google search and you'll find plenty of hits.

Another spring project was to get the dinghy inflated and the motor mounted. We hadn't had a chance to blow it up since we had it repaired last fall. Everything seemed to be working well. We took it out for a couple of trips to make sure all was good and it was. As we were leaving the marina we were greeted by an eagle keeping an eye on things.

That's about it for this update. Once we got home we headed off for a 12 day trip around the Southeast. A family wedding in Isle of Palms SC and then over to NOLA for the first weekend of Jazzfest including a Buffett performance to end the weekend. Since then we have been working on the house to get it back on the market so I can finally retire (for real) and we can get started on our adventure. Hopefully we'll have some good news to share about that in our next installment. I'll leave you with one last picture of Chasing 80 nestled in her slip waiting to get moving. Soon, very soon...

Can we go somewhere?