Getting Ready To Move Offshore
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Goin' Cruisin'
After 15 years of living aboard Shearwater with wife, Diane and dog, Holli I am now about to be "Alone Again....Naturally" (Thanks, Gilbert). The plan had been for me to get a smaller boat (which I did....Frodo) and cruise south, starting with Baja. The wife, now my ex, wanted to stay here and work and live on the boat, but, instead decided to buy a big power boat to live on and hopefully invite her aging mother to live on as well. I give her points for her 12 years of living on Shearwater and for at least staying on the water. Also, big points to her for seeing and facing reality, taking care of herself and being a real friend. It really is the nicest gift you have ever given me, my Dear Girl. Sincerely. Thanks. So, now I push out old Shearwater into the Pacific with older sails, rigging and aged mechanical systems, to live "on the hook" along the coast and possibly find a home on Catalina Island. I look forward to clean water and many ocean passages & adventures up & down the Southern California coast. The Journey begins Monday, August 2, 2004.