Fixes, friends and festivities

Once we had possession of Morning Stars we quickly got to work and oh there was a lot of work to do. My ‘project manager’ brain had me creating detailed spreadsheets of all the work, timelines and additional costs we needed to manage. The biggest, and most important, project we needed to undertake was new rigging…

Our Panamanian life – monkeys, lightning & Morning Star

It’s funny to think that when we sailed into Shelter Bay Marina on July 28th we had only planned to be here a few days. We have now been at the marina for almost two months! As you already know, there is a very good reason for our extended stay here – our new boat,…

Emerald Bay Marina and George Town

My last blog left off just before we arrived in Emerald Bay Marina. Tying Starship up to a dock is a very rare occurrence now. Keeping that in mind, it was such a treat to settle in and enjoy the area, showers and free laundry facilities. Wow, what a luxury free laundry was…everything got washed…

Merry Christmas!

So much has happened since I last blogged. I guess you could say reality hit us in the face pretty hard during our attempt to sail from Pensacola to Key West. Backing up a bit… …while in Turners, we did receive our mainsail on December 7th as expected. Very shortly after that we started making…