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.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Passage To West Palm



We left on Saturday morning from the St. John's River (Jacksonville, Florida) to go on a 2 nite passage to West Palm (about 240 miles)....along with our buddy boat, Blue Blaze. The wind was anywhere from 0 to 12 knots, the moon was full and the skies were clear. The most gorgeous sunsets and sunrises, shooting stars and lots of dolphins. The dolphins are atracted to your boat like a magnet, they love to cruise in your bow wake. We even saw some at nite through the water because the moon was so bright (like who turned the lites on)...amazing.John and I traded watches, about 3 hors on 3 hours off. You spend countless hours just gazing off onto the horizon to check for other boats...You can see entrance channel lights that from afar seem to take on other shapes until you are within a few miles of them. This passage was just perfect...We had to even slow the boat down to 4.4 knots to arrive during the morning hours into the West Palm entrance. Attached you will see a dolphin picture (not great) from alongside the boat and a pic of West Palm...
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Lynn said...

I love being off shore at night, I usually get distracted looking at the stars and chasing the cat. Glad everything went well.

December 1, 2009 at 4:23 PM

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