The Retirement Wake on S/V Imagine

What a cruise to NOWHERE!  Yes, we are going nowhere was the theme.  We had no specific destination, but to the Gulf of Mexico.  The winds were our guide, fair as they might have been they took us to nowhere in particular.  It was great experience to navigate down Galveston Bay, out of the Houston Ship Channel and into the Gulf of Mexico for the day.  I know how bad can that be, but with the Houston Ship Channel being one of the busiest ship channels in the US it requires some skill and caution. For some it was the first time in the Gulf, and others just another trip.  We jump on every opportunity to go somewhere even if it turns out to be nowhere.  The winds were fair in the Gulf, but we did maintain about 5 knots. The return we stopped over for the night at Laguna Harbour, just east of Galveston Tx.  It is a housing development with a developer who likes boaters.  Yea eat your heart out Florida Boaters!  They have areas for us to tie up, plug into electricity for free.  We went t

On S\V Imagine we try our best to keep her ready to travel, and we  have succeeded at that goal.  The other is to be as self sufficient as possible on fixing or improving our boat.  There are some things that are beyond our technical realm so we hope our other skills have a barter value in the future. The canvas on Imagine is slowly giving out, and we have acquired a sailrite machine to tackle the job.   I have ZERO experience in sewing, however Carol was 1982 FHA sewing with cotton winner for the state of Louisiana. Plus her mother who owns a quilt shop, teaches sewing did an outstanding job teaching this skill to her daughter.  It is a art that is fading away with a lot of the younger generation.  The Sailrite videos are AWESOME!  We followed the steps and really had to make only a few alterations and we are happy with the outcome.  Our next job will be the bimini, then the dodger. This is Carol measuring and marking the layout of the sailpack. (we discovered the cleaning cr