Wrapping up the blog for this winter sailing season: Ihana is now on-the-hard at American
Custom Yachts in Stuart, FL.
Here's how the season ended –
We scheduled a haulout, but had to wait for a couple of
days. So, we drove from Stuart (east coast) to Naples (west coast) and camped
out with Jan & Lynn for a weekend.
Then drove back to Stuart (east coast), did the haulout, and finished
decommissioning the boat [some stuff left on board, some shipped home, some
into a climate-controlled storage locker for the summer, some into the camper
to come home with us, and a lot into the dumpster.]
Then left and spent a few days with Gary and Karen in
Sebring [middle of the state], then continued on with them to visit Dallas and
Jan in Punta Gorda [west coast].
Decided that was enough "tacking". Drove home, via Rob & Gabi near
Nashville. Indiana and Illinois were just too boring, so we had a
nice drive up the Mississippi from Cairo IL [don't go there – it's worse than
Detroit] thru St. Louis [avoid at rush hour], and up through eastern Iowa [also
boring]. Home in 4 days, once we stopped going east & west and headed
north.
Signing off until October, when The Adventures of Ihana -
Part 3 resumes in Florida.
