Winter in Florida

We left Kinvara on Oct. 7th for haul out and headed to Franklin, MA to finish packing our belongings. Thursday morning at 3AM found us on the road to Florida with Pretzel, our 13 yr old mini daschound. This marked our final move to our new house in Florida. Kinvara is on the hard for the winter so we can enjoy our new house & golf this winter. We will be investigating east coast marinas and make plans to bring Kinvara South in the fall of 2009. Florida weather is delightful now. Joined the "snowbirds" and bought a golf cart today. At least we can contribute to saving our environment by using an electric car around the community. We will post a picture when it arrives.

Galway Hooker

August 2008 found us in Kinvara, Ireland. We weren't sailing our own "Kinvara" but watching the traditional Galway sailing boats, "Galway hookers". Each year in August there is a traditional boat festival featuring races between the different sizes of boats. We stayed for 33 days in Kinvara, Peter's home town, and it rained all but 5 days. This year the festival was rained out. The race took place the Tuesday after. It was an awesome sight. Some of these boats were for fishing but the larger ones transported turf across Galway Bay. Our rented house was in the far left of the picture, facing Kinvara bay and Dunguire Castle.