What is it all about?

What is it all about?


After living on our boat for almost 9 months we still get questions.

You live on a boat?  Yes.
What do you do when it rains?  Uh, watch TV, take a nap, read a book, what do you do?
You have a kitchen?  No, we do not, we have a galley.
What about a bathroom?  No, but we do have a head.
You really live on a boat?  Yep.
 
Even though we are still in the marina, with cruising in the future we do get to have a lot of the same benefits.  I look around our marina and I see lots of lonely boats. Both sail and power that just sit, never visited or taken out to do what boats do.  To paint the picture we have the boats that sit and never visited, some of these are taken care of extremley well.  A few are rotting away with no love or hope for the future.  We have some that are visited by weekenders and they return back to dirt dwellers.   Then we have the live aboards who live day to day on their boat.   They give them life, with hopes of cruising in remote islands one day fullfilling the dreams of the owners.   We live in 2nd largest boating community in the U.S. and the 4th largest metro area in the United States.  So on a typical weekend we might go sailing friday night, watch some fireworks then head back in.  A little rain may blow in, but we still have something to do.  We go to China town for some Sushi at Hakaido, which is a small place with excellent Sushi.

 




 
Then we come back for a Dinghy ride, exploring some of the back channels and going to Out Riggers for some refreshments,a snack and listen to some live music.  Then dinghy over to a friends boat for a quick visit.
 
 
 
The exciting part is when we have friends or family come visit and take them out to share what we experience daily.  The pay off is this......
 
Argggg! I have the helm Captain!

Imagine what she is thinking!

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