Come to Greece they said. It’ll be fun they said. Not sure poor Kris knew that her trip out to see us included deck scrubbing and being assigned to the 2am-4pm night watch on our passage to Montenegro. But we have a shiny boat and two hours more sleep than we usually …
Our resident Bosun, youngest daughter, and sometimes doodle-r Chloe, who often calls herself “Debbie Deckhand” made this sketch of Bedouin the other day. Our Debbie Deckhand Doodles Delightfully don’t you think?
Our new chart plotter has arrived and Stathis, our favorite Marine Electrician, brought it over and got it all installed. Stathis warned us that this new unit has a lot of bells and whistles but just because we could now watch Netflix movies on it doesn’t mean we should. He’s probably right, that it’s …
We sailed back to Preveza one last time to get our new chart plotter installed. We brought Bedouin dockside and lashed her up for the night and Mark put the full array of our fenders out knowing there was a steady blow headed our way . The forecast showed winds would be blowing all …
We’ve officially christened the boat! Sailors are a superstitious lot—which meant we had to purge every last remnant of the old name from off the boat. Just hours before, Mark found a gas can in the locker with the old name written on it. Our daughter Chloe ran and got something to scrub it …
Our new batteries just arrived and we’re excited to get them installed. Our new chart plotter is ordered and we’re hoping to get that in as soon as possible as well. All work and no sail is sometimes the way it goes around here. I never thought I’d hug a battery but this power hungry …
A calm morning. A breath of gratitude. Chase your dreams—you just might catch them.
While we are still dockside waiting for our standing rigging to get tuned Mark decided to install the sink we brought over from the states with us in our suitcase. (Chloe will remind you that it was HER suitcase that is was stowed in since it limited the amount of stuff she could take.) …
We have splashed!! It was an unbelievably EXCITING day! We’ve got a few more things to do before we can venture off—so we made it as far as the marina docks. Our standing rigging was replaced over the winter (the cables that hold the mast up) and it needs to be “tuned” once …
There’s nothing our youngest daughter Chloe won’t do on board Bedouin, she’s killing it as our Bosun.
