Nope, Traci never took over the ship, she's the admiral, it was this guy.......
John and Sara Hamrick, a couple we met at the marina, went on vacation to the US Virigin islands and we gladly offered to watch their cat named Crew. Crew is not a suitable name, nothing Crew about him, he's the captain, owns the whole ship, don't forget it.
During the storm, Isaac, he was a little nervous due to the noise of chop on the water slapping the sides of the boat but after the storm he settled right into letting us know who the boss is. This morning I'm at the table reading up on another new toilet we just aquired and enjoying my last coffee of the day when Crew leaped up on the table, walked over my coffee and stuck his right hind foot right into the cup. It was still a little bit warm, hot even so he jumped clear of the cup and ran across the table and went to Traci's fruit basket, pictured above, that he claimed days ago as his own, and proceeded to clean the coffee off his foot. John and Sara are picking him up today and tonite they'll be wondering why he's so full of it and won't sleep. I hope he has a caffeine withdrawal headache tomorrow, that'll learn him. We had to clean up the spatter and little coffee foot prints while he just lay there and look at us so innocent like.
He is a little cutie. You can pick him up and flip him over and rub his belly or when he reaches out to get your attention he never has his claws out or when he chews on you it's always gentle. There is a resident little lizard who lives in the mast and jumps down and crosses the windows every night at sundown going out to roam and feast on bugs. Once and while he hesitates on a window and Crew saw him just above the chart table on the outside. He jumped up on the table and cocked his head side to side and gingerly reached up and softly touched the window where the outline of the lizard was. Cute moment but otherwise the hurricane was inside.
When we travelled from Grenada on our maiden voyage I kept a blog on some site with lots of pictures and a timeline of events from start to finish. Every new entry prompted the site to send emails to everyone on your list to tell them to check the blog. It was all good until the moderator shut it down and discontinued the site. I wrote and asked him if I could get all the stuff I uploaded but was unable to so it is pretty much lost forever. On this journey, I asked Paul and Shannon Baynham if they wanted to join us and learn (or suffer) right along with us as we brought the boat back to Florida. Paul and I used to talk of this sort of thing years earlier when Traci and I ran a little marina on the St Lawrence River and Paul and Shannon kept their house boat with us. We'd sit around a fire in the evening, might have had a beer or two, and discussed retirement and sailing the southern waters as I always thought this is what I'd like to do. One year we sat around the fire talking the same old dream and Paul said "I think we'd like to join you." I thought something along the lines of "long ways away" or "we'll see" or "I'll be lucky to live long enough" or some such thing. Low and behold, Paul and Shannon helped us make our (or my) dreams come true and after our journey they purchased a motor catamaran and we finally met them on anchor in the Bahamas last January. During our journey they kept a blog of the trip and after their cat purchase started another blog which is linked on this blog. I was trying to find their blog recently in a search engine by searching Coyaba, the name of their boat and came across a book called Coyaba by Shannon Baynham. I thought "She's turned their blog into book form." They are currently in St Augustine working on Coyaba and I emailed to tell them we wouldn't be able to make it up to see them and Shannon asked for our mailing address. I thought "She's going to send us a copy of the book Coyaba I'll bet." Below is what we got.
hey lets plan to get together in Bahamas in January again,play cards and drink some fine wine!
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