Dubleott

Cormorant, fishing

When the anchor line gets under the bow The tide slaps the side of the hull And she can’t point into the wind All you can do is wait it out A lesser anchor would drag

Bruja Fiona

Towboat on the ICW

Dolphins

Haulout 3/7/22

Sunset

Dolphins

Grasshopper

Bruja Fiona

Moonrise

Sunrise

Rainbow

Tugboat

Bruja Fiona

Bruja Fiona

Sunset meerkat clouds

Sunrise FtPierce 184

Sunset FtPierce 184

Dolphins 🐬

Dinghy ride to Electra

I’m sure many of you are wondering what made me quit my 42 years of farrier work, sell my condo, leave my family and buy a ⛵️. There is but one short answer to that. God. In 2019, China had loosed Covid upon the entire world. In January 2021 my heart was so troubled after we lost Rush Limbaugh I felt like I’d lost a dear uncle who was always truthful and honest with what was happening in the world. Then President Trump was usurped by the communist left and freedom was lost. Mandate after mandate was forced down peoples throats which I refused to obey. And so I prayed. And God answered and said “get off land”. It wasn’t so much His voice I heard but the 3 visions and premonitions of me on a sailboat out on the ocean fully provisioned and self sufficient and safe. At peace. At first I balked at the idea of me on a sailboat. I’d never sailed before in my life! What do I know about sailing?🤷‍♀️ Again He said “get off land”. Summer came and went, I kept working and going about my business. I began looking at sailboats on PopYachts and other sites on the internet- how much boat could I singlehand? 30’ seemed too small. 40’ seemed too overwhelming. All the YouTube sailing channels seemed to involve a ton of maintenance and repairs. I’m no mechanic, changing oil and filters didn’t appeal to me. Then I came across an electric sailboat on PopYachts. I keyed in on that one aspect and found 4 boats and began to intensify my search. Two were in the Bay Area (SF) one in Texas and the other in Florida. I contacted a broker at PopYachts and he got me on the two boats in California. The first boat was a 34’ Cal with a 10kW motor, solar panels and literally sinking in its slip at the marina. Pass. The catamaran in Texas sold before I could see it. A few weeks later I went back to SF and looked at the 32’ Pilothouse with a 20kW motor, solar panels and not much space to move around. Neither of these boats felt right to me, besides they didn’t fit the boat in my visions. All the while Charlie at PopYachts is encouraging me to have a serious look at the boat in Vero beach as someone else had shown keen interest in. So I went and put a deposit down on it the next day. Once I’d secured the boat I made the gut wrenching decision to sell the condo. I had been wrestling with the notion ‘do I keep it? Do I sell it? How else am I to fund this life altering course?’ Enter Leslie Biederman 🙏 After only two showings we had an offer. I had to get my shit together and get rid of 20 years of acquired ‘stuff’- yard sales, porch sales, open house give away’s finally it was all gone. A few delays with closing escrow and sleeping on the floor and by December 13th I was out of there. Having put the deposit on the boat allowed me time to finish up business in Nevada, and I was on the road Dec 17th headed to Florida. After a brief stopover in Texas to see my sister I arrived in Vero beach on the 22nd of December 2021, met the boat owner at the marina and then hustled to the bank to transfer the rest of the money. I now owned a sailboat. The next day we (the surveyor I hired along with the owner ) sailed south on the ICW to Ft Pierce for the haulout to inspect the hull, prop, rudder and thruhulls. All passed!🙏 That’s how I came to where I am today. Guided by God with full faith in Him. What’s next? I don’t know. But I do know this: He wants me here. 🙏God Bless🙏

Haulout 3/7/22