Feeling wired

Although John loved being on Moondance and the learning curve associated with her, he is wired. He keeps referring to a much known actor as he describes how he has been feeling the past three weeks.  Remember he has enjoyed Moondance aka Training Wheels a week longer than me :) If you read our traing wheels blog post you will get a better idea of why John has been feeling like this.  :)
Life Is Good, Sail On!!!!

Missing Moondance

It has been a long day of travel for us as we are traveling back to the northeast.  I can't help but feel a little sad missing being on Moondance. Even though we had some difficult and sometimes challenging situations the past two weeks she was becoming our home away from home.  We were able to find a lot of really cool boat stuff to decorate and spiff her up.  I decided to use sail flags and anchors as our decorating theme along with dark blue and reds and a bit of yellow of course. There are a lot of different online stores I was able to find that sells boat stuff. It has been fun.  We decided Moondance could really use some new rigging.  So we requested them to replace her rigging with solid colors red,blue and green. That way when we return and I'm learning to sail her I won't get the sail lines mixed up. Kinda like what I do in my classroom color coating :) things to stay organized, John liked the idea.  I'm looking forward to seeing all her bright new colors.
Life Is Good, Sail On!!!!

Moondance is at the marine hospital :)

We had a nice trip today.  We motored up the ICW and went thru the lock at Cape Canaveral. We saw lots of dolphins and manatee. It was sunny and nice especially nice since it has been raining for the past 3 days. We went to Scorpion marina. The people there are very nice.  They pulled Moondance out of the water with the large marine crane to work on beautifying her so when we return no more problems with showers, pumps electric, etc....:).....The men at Scorpion marina helped us with choosing new things for Moondance. She will be all fixed up when we return late march.

We decided to take a cab to a hotel at cocoa beach for the night and get a taxi in the morning to the airport in Orlando. With this snow storm we will probably be delayed at some point but we are headed north.
 It has been an awesome trip, not what we expected but we are learning a lot. We have also meet some really nice people.
Life Is Good, Sail on!!!!

Logo

This is a picture of our logo. It will also have a few stars :) when it is done. John has been working with an artist from Miami who creates boat logos. We are excited to have it put onto the boat and have our name changing ceremony. There is a ritual which includes breaking a bottle of champaign over the boat in honor of Neptune. Not certain the whole story but will blog about the ceremony sometime during our march trip, when we plan to sail farther north once all the repairs are completed.
Life Is Good, Sail on!!!

Rain Rain go away

It has been a real adventure the past several days. The weather is not good, there has been a lot of rain. We have not left the dock in several days. I wish it would stop raining. Tomorrow we are going to Scorpion marina at the Cape to have Moondance aka Training wheels taken out of the water to be painted, our logo put on among several other things including fix the main sail, new refrigerator and check the stove so we will be ready for our long journey this summer. Not to mention the list if electronics including radar to check weather.
I am going to add a few pictures. This Picture is of our lifelines. I took this while heading into the Atlantic the day we could not get the main sail to go up and I was REALLY scared.
Life Is Good, Sail On!!!!

Annapolis

John and I at the Annapolis boat show in Maryland this fall prior to buying Moondance.

Cool waters

Docking at Cocoa Village Marina
Life Is Good, Sail On !!!!