Day 26 & 27 (Oct.12-13) New Friends and New Canvas

We met a couple aboard s/v Persephone who are cruising South & to the Bahamas for the first time...just like us! They are from Connecticut, have a Sabre 40, and left about the same time we did. Dave and Trudie are our age and we have much in common so far! They came to our boat with 2 friends, Ian & Mike,for drinks & munchies. Apparently Dave has done all the systems on his boat and he & Trudie have their Ham radio license so we will hopefully get lots of good advice and suggestions. We hope to meet up periodically along the ICW. By the way, Ian comes from Limerick in Ireland and now lives in Connecticut. He owns a 45ft Sabre and cant wait to retire and set sail for the setting sun.

Our new canvas arrived Tues. around noontime. As Mike & Robin started putting it together we started to feel warmth inside our new "room". It will be so nice to stay warm, dry, and 'bug' free while coasting along the ICW and beyond. It took over 3 hours to attach all the grommets and fasteners to the canvas and the cockpit area. We are sitting here, tonight, with our hatchway open and are warm! Mike, from Canvas Wizard, did a fabulous job and we thank Robin's husband for the referral! So far we have been extremely happy with the work done in Annapolis and with Jabin's Yacht Yard.

Tomorrow we push off the dock hopefully heading to Solomon Island. Good bye to Jill, Jim, and Scupper (Pretzel's friend) and we hope to see you cruising next year. Let us know if you start to move south!