On Feb 17, 7:58 am, "NE Sailboat" wrote:
[And, of course, we'll also repair all the stuff on deck or above which
has been either damaged or entirely lost. All this will take a month
or two, after which we'll head out again.]
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Yo ,, Skip..... in two months it will be the beginning of hurricane season
in Florida. Well, at the least the beginning of the beginning.

How about getting your boat fixed, having it trucked to Maine, and starting
out from there. I can steer you in the direction of a few yards that will
do you right, and you can get out of Florida so that the Karma will be
better when you set forth for your second trip to paradise.

I really do like Maine - I vacationed there off the coast, near Small
Point, north of Bath, many years. However, until July or August, it
won't be close to warm enough to suit Lydia.

Worse, to prep the boat for shipping (never mind the shipping costs -
which were quoted as 1800 from Marathon to St. Pete on a backhaul -
probably a bit higher from one end of the country to the other) would
be thousands of dollars we don't have (then there's getting *us*
there, as well), and more thousands to recommission it.

Maybe for rich folks but certainly not us.

That's not to say we might not do the east coast, and wind up that far
north, by that time. Lydia's a lot more amenable to an East Coast
shake*down*, now, having been shaken *up* lately, and our real
departure time would be about right for the weather which suits her,
which is 70-85 or so. We're guessing at a couple of months, max.

But, things are changing so fast WRT our realities that we really
can't plan much beyond getting to St. Pete to attend to the few things
we have left (make the radar reliable, do another epoxy barrier coat
on all the new stuff, and then new bottom job on the stuff which got
bare, as much of the tabbing on the interior as we can get to, raise
the waterline by covering the boot stripe when we do the bottom job,
make the exhaust come out the side next to the engine room rather than
under water at the stern, send the prop off for service [slightly bent
one ear, no gouges] repair our sails [main and genny currently off,
stowed for transit; we'll use the staysail for steadying as we motor],
replace the stuff torn off in the wind, and in the meantime, look for
acceleration on our captain's courses originally scheduled for June,
so we don't have to come back for those, enjoy her
'grandchildren' (her kids' pets), and perhaps actually get to slow
down a bit.

So, it's unlikely we'll truck it anywhere, let alone from one end of
the country to the other. However, we might come sail that area...

L8R

Skip and Lydia, trucking right along

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