The Retirement Wake on S/V Imagine

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. On...

2014 was a very confusing year, and I will explain why.  I was looking at my Timehop pics this morning and it was a year ago this weekend that we had came down to actuallly set foot on some boats we thought we liked.  Then by April we found our boat here in Kemah, that following October we moved aboard fulltime.   Yea, most of you will say why is that a bad year, oh the story has just begun. My wifes youngest sister who had already kicked breast cancer's butt, found out she had a genetic issue called CDH1 gene mutation.  Well that has caused that entire side of my wifes family to get tested.  A lot have tested positive, and some have tested negative.  CDH1 is a nasty little booger that is not on the main front of cancer TV ads or testimonials.   However, I think it has  a broader reach than it is currently known to have.  It first causes stomach cancer, and it causes a stomach cancer that is very hard to detect.  For instance my wife had...