Keeping the DREAM fresh while we wait.....

We did move on board a bit early for a plan, however the boat came available so we did it.  Even having to work we still get to live aboard and experience the lifestyle.  Being connected at the dock is not our true dream we still love the beginning. The last couple of weeks it has been raining, cold, gray, cloudy and just not much fun.  Condensation battle and solutions were found.  Learning how good our heater worked and hoping that will never have to be used again once we cut the lines.  Kemah is like the 2nd or 3rd largest boating communites in the U.S. and it has good access to the bay and further.  One thing we have learned is that Galveston Bay is SHALLOW, being form Arkansas living on a lake were it was up to 100 ft deep on our lake this is odd to us.  We only daw 5'4" but what I did learn yesterday coming back in our channel is a high spot at low tide.  When my depth finder reads 3.9 we touch!  Good thing is is just soft nasty mud. One thing about Galveston Bay on a good day there are hundreds of sailboats out on the water, and we get to see some HUGE commercial ships from all over the world.  

The winds were light up to 10, however it made good for a good slow day.  We  anchored out, and considered staying out all night, but when the winds were going to change out of the north again and pick up too gust of 23 we decided to go back.  The problems was not riding out the wind, but when the wind blows out of the North and stays out of the North  it pushes the water out of Clearlake and can keep you from getting back into your marinia.   So we opted to head back in, get Imagine tucked away and go out for pizza.  On the way back in we saw the NCL Jewel going out for a 7 day cruise, and we can remember being on a cruise ship and seeing a sailboat and we would say one day that will be us.  Or coming in by the boardwalk people pointing and taking pictures of your boat as you pass by.    It is cool being the boat that dreamers look at and Imagine what life would be like.

Keep the DREAM alive! It is possible!

S/V Imagine



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