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16-12-2007, 14:49
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Stuart, FL & Bahamas Cruising
Boat: Lagoon 37
Posts: 880
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We Have Finally Cut the Lines
Well the trip/sojourn has begun! After a ton of trials, and tribulations we have made the exit for the winter! It has been a trying summer with health issues, financial issues, and just life itself; it has just been a bit tough. But we have endured and will be stronger from it I am sure.
Well as I mentioned earlier we are heading down the ICW and waiting for a weather window to jump outside and be a sail boat rather than a SLOW motor boat! The ICW has its own beauty if you enjoy solitude and vast marsh flats! There are many spots where you see nothing for as far as the eye can see for hours on end. An occasional dolphin/porpoise will break the silence jumping out of the water near you! You can certainly imagine that this has not changed for hundreds of years! As usual we have seen very few boats, maybe one or two cruisers. So other than some local fishermen and crabbers we have had it to ourselves.
Yesterday it rained off and on all day, but we did finally get the tidal flows in our favor, which gave us an extra knot or two!!!!!!!! It’s the small things you appreciateJ. But needless to say getting to our anchorage was very welcome. Being wet and cold all day takes a toll. But we are no tucked in behind an island, “Wahoo Island”, with some large trees to shield us from the forecasted 20-40 Knots of wind out of the Northwest switching to the North on Sunday. So, with the forecast for rain, FROST, and a lot of wind, we will make this home for a day or two.
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16-12-2007, 14:57
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Tasmania
Boat: VandeStadt IOR 40' - Insatiable
Posts: 2,317
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Good luck. I'm jealous; I'm still about 5 years from fuly cutting the lines...
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16-12-2007, 15:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Miami Shores
Boat: Endeavour E40
Posts: 261
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Sounds like a GRAND time you're having!! Best of luck!
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16-12-2007, 16:05
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
Posts: 12,823
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Congratulations! Have fun!
Mark
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16-12-2007, 17:56
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: FL
Boat: Far East Mariner 40
Posts: 652
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Awesome, we are hoping to leave next fall on our own trip/sojourn. We wish you the best of luck... Have fun.
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16-12-2007, 20:05
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Back in Northern California working on the Ranch
Boat: Pearson 365 Sloop and 14ft.Whitehall pulling skiff.
Posts: 10,455
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Please stay in touch and let us know how its going...Aloha
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17-12-2007, 03:57
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 47,901
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Originally Posted by JusDreaming
”We Have Finally Cut the Lines...”
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Congratulations on making “the exit for the winter”; but next time, I suggest that you merely untie & coil the lines (rather than cutting them).
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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17-12-2007, 15:52
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Stuart, FL & Bahamas Cruising
Boat: Lagoon 37
Posts: 880
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GordMay
Congratulations on making “the exit for the winter”; but next time, I suggest that you merely untie & coil the lines (rather than cutting them).
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they had been tied for six LONG months and cutting was the only way to get them loose they had molded in place 
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17-12-2007, 16:00
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Ireland
Boat: Van de Stadt 34'
Posts: 288
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Congrats on "breaking the mold", keep heading south and the winter will evaporate. . . best of luck and keep us "posted" . . . enjoy!!
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