Well, after 2 years plus we have sold Sea Turtle. Sunday we plan to start our last trip going to the Chesapeake to deliver the boat for the buyers visual inspection (he hasn't seen the boat), survey and sea trial. If that all goes well he will take possession of the boat there. I have agreed to accompany him back to his home port in CONN. The logistics of all that is still to be determined depending on how soon we close and how soon he is ready to leave.
We have had a good run with Sea Turtle. We have been to FL and FL west coast, the Keys and over to the Bahamas. The first trip was particularly special as we traveled in the company of our long time friends Mark and Judy Handley. It was knowing they had the experience of a circumnavigation that we could fall back on that gave us the courage to undertake the voyage.
Our second winter on the boat we traveled with our excellent friends Mitch and Martha Strickland in their trawler M&M's Journey. We did FL and the Keys.
Our third winter we did FL, the Keys and over to the Bahamas. That was our first transit of the Gulf Stream unaccompanied. Convinced us we could do it. We cut that trip short when our no. 2 son called and said he had taken a job in Denver and wanted our help moving. We took two of U-Haul's largest trucks with car haulers behind them and went west.
Now it is time go get in the travel trailer and see more of the US that is not accessible by boat. We have been in all 50 states as well as eastern and western Canada. That just convinced us there is much more to see. Time marches on and waits for no man.
On this, our last trip, we will try to post some comments here and probably on Facebook. If you are still getting this we appreciate your interest. Keep us in mind and come see us.
Lee
