The Retirement Wake on S/V Imagine

Christmas on S/V Imagine is not much different than Christmas in a house. I get JOY no matter if it is on the boat or on land. Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be alright, and the determined choice to praise God in every situation. I feel this everyday of my life, and am grateful for having it. I wonder how sometimes things have turned out so well at this point in my life.  Choice is what we all have, and by the grace of God we are able to fail and try again.  Even with all the bad or good choices we might have made.  It is only a blink of an eye of what is to come for all of us that believe. As I sit here riding out a storm that has blown into south Texas, winds blowing up to 40 mph with the boat rocking.  The wife is tucked in bed like a baby, and I am up enjoying my morning. We are a week away from flying back home to Arkansas to visit family, and see my first born John

Bon Voyage my Friends!   When we first bought the our boat, Diane was the first person I met on our pier.  She is a very sweet, kind and giving person. Paul, her husband is also a great guy filled with knowledge, and open to help others at a moments notice. We are sad to see them leave, but excited that they have started there dream! In the boating community you do not loose friends, but gain adventurers.    Paul and Diane  on Sea Casa     Last Time going out the Kemah Channel

Tis the Season to Cruise Update from S/V Imagine living on the Retirement Wake.  The Retirement Wake is the blog for Carol and Ken living on S/V Imagine.  We moved from Arkansas to Texas to live on THE BOAT!  We had looked long and hard and when she found us we knew it was time to make the jump.  Knowing we were still having to work a couple more years we did it.  When we moved, we had a lake house back in Arkansas, we rented it via VRBO which did pay for the expenses of that property and provided a small amount of income.  Then it sold and was a blessing for us, it pushed us one step closer to shoving off. We are now adding more to our savings and investments for another year and some critical boat projects I want to do. Boat Projects New jib. (the one we have when we bough the boat is about 7 ft short) Permanently mount AIS (however we use BOAT Beacon which is a APP works good but not the solution for long voyages) Fuel tank #2 (ours is only 26 gal, which gives us 24 hour