Our Story In a Nutshell

In 2003 , we began our labor of love and started to restore our CSY 44 sailboat,which we named Freedom. After 5 1/2 years of pure sweat, (Florida in July in a t-vac suit and full mask)some tears, endless reading and lots of leaps of faith, restoration was completed in January 2009. The rest of the story is unraveling as we learn to become the sailors we have always read about. Their inspiration has always lead us to new places...the real reson we started this adventure to begin with. We left from St. Petersburg, Florida in January 2009, sailed to Longboat key, then Useppa, St. James City, Cape Coral, Marathon, Rodriguez Key, Miami, then onto the Bahamas. In the Bahamas we sailed to Norman's Key, Shroud, Hawksbill, Warderick Wells, Black Point, Staniel Key, Spanish wells, Eleuthera, Little Harbor, Marsh harbor and then over to Beaufort North Carolina...up the ICW to Norfolk and finally we ended up in the Chesapeake Bay.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Off the Hook with Johnny Depp



We finally left the dock at Solomons and had an amazing sunset dinner with Jason and Laura....Then off to Harris Creek, Tilghmann Island and St Michaels on the Eastern Shore. These incredible creeks meander back and forth with gorgeous tall grass waterfronts. These towns are are steeped in history and charm...Now onto Johnny Depp. We borrowed a car from friends ( a huge perk of cruising, great friends in wonderful places)and drove into St Michaels...a charming (that word has a comeback)16th century town...complete with incredibly restored houses, shops, a microbrewery and Johnny Depp's boat. The town had sighting of him throughout the day but no one could actually confirm his whereabouts. The boat is a 156 motorsailer...it's pretty much gorgeous. Due to a Vanity Fair artcicle that we read a few months back, we could confirm it was his yacht. He also purchased an island in the Bahamas so further research is needed. It was all lots of fun...the town was abuzz. The next day, the St Michaels newpaper ran a pic of his boat on the front page. The elusive Johnny was never found and the yacht had sailed off to a new port. Great fun!
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3 comments:

Equinox Crew said...

LOVE the pic of the gorgeous boat. We read that Vanity Fair piece too. Now you def have to track him down in the Bahamas. There is the most awesome maritime museum in St. Michael's. Hope you guys get to see it.

September 19, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Steve said...

To Gam, or not to Gam? You're right across the bay.,,we're pulling anchor and moving to the Rhode tomorrow sometime.

September 20, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Lynn said...

Hey, we saw that boat in Annapolis last week. No buzz about JD, though.The boat had a crew of 4 on the bow, all chamoising like mad.

September 21, 2009 at 4:12 PM

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