Sailing Family of 6 - Not All Who Wander Are Lost.

Happy Birthday Cannon and Happy Thanksgiving to all!! Cannon's birthday plans (by his design)  Cookies and milk for breakfast, cupcakes and coconuts and ice-cream later today.   Sleeping with Mom and Dad tonight.  Sounds perfect little buddy! Meanwhile, mom cleans the fridge, goes grocery shopping, lifeguards, and charges electronics. We all wash down the boat/fill the water tanks.   Dad repairs the propeller, a 12 volt outlet and a solenoid with several trips to the hardware store and a trip to the liquor store later! (On a technical note, there were some problems with people not being able to comment, I believe that now it is possible to do so!  Let me know.)

I love the Berries and could spend a long long time here!!  We motor sailed to Great Harbor. It was a long 26 hours for Don and I but the kids were well rested.  We had a flat calm morning on the banks so we took our first swim.  We just let the boat drift as we took turns swimming. It was beautiful! Here are our first Bahamas pictures.  When we woke we had a very calm ocean and we proceeded to enjoy it immediately and immensely. We checked in at Great Harbor then made our way to Hoffmans Cay. We had some serious fun there! From there we spent a couple days doing some relaxing and conch hunting when we had some strong Northerlies.  The conch was delicious but we might have a sweet little girl who is allergic to shellfish.  We haven't let her have any recently so we will test our theory again soon.  Don't worry we have meds!  Missing family and friends as always. We are now in Nassau where we have ha...

We are still in Ft. LAUDERDALE as the watermaker we are waiting for isn't here as we expected and had to be sent. We are anxiously waiting and hoping to jump across next week if the weather permits.  In the meantime, we are very limited in places to go as it's the International Boat Show Everything is closed or so booked up that we can't get service.  On a positive note, the boats around here would blow your mind! We have been keeping busy on Allie May doing lots of fix up projects.   Don has replaced the screening in all our hatches.  They look great! He also put a fan in  the stifling bathroom.  What a godsend.  It looks and works great!   I've been primarily reorganizing and cleaning. The kids have been busy with school and when we do finally get off the boat they crack me up by running in circles playing TAG or follow the leader as they have a lot of pent up energy.  There has been a bit more grouchiness on all our p...