Well we've gone and done it!!  If you hadn't heard, we sold our home in Rotonda and closed on December 31st.  It was a very stressful 3 months of wondering if it would ever go through BUT it did and it is now a part of our past, so enough said about that.

We moved aboard the boat on New Year's Eve and started our 'new life' of living aboard in the New Year, quite fitting don't you think?  We have been living in the boat yard 'on the hard' for 3 weeks.  Night time  tinkle bucket and all.  It really hasn't been that bad, in fact I've rather enjoyed it.  As usual we have met so many great people here.  Not many full time cruisers but a lot of snowbirds down to use their boats for the winter. There was a great New Year's Eve party and a week later a Spaghetti dinner with a band....these boaters know how to have fun!

We launched her on Friday at 10:30, fully expecting to leave by noon....oh sure, like that would happen!  Of course the first "issue" was, once again, the head.  Oh, you are so surprised I bet! 
Yes Gary is thrilled to know that plumbing is again in his near future.  Then another more serious and pressing issue was the port engine not starting.  After 2 days of sitting at the dock playing with wires and meters and lots of bad words......we are McGivered together enough to head to Marathon and fix the issue properly when we get there.  It's something to do with grounding and new battery wires and.....well, way over my head!

We plan on leaving the dock tomorrow morning at 7 am. Our first stop on our journey will be Fort Myers City Dock for fuel (not looking forward to that tab) and then on to Naples where we will use Cory's car to come back and get our truck.  Then on to Marathon in the Keys and from there......wherever the siren call takes us.

 

 

So cross your fingers that we make it through Florida Bay without catching a crab pot or two and motor into Boot Key Harbor and actually have a ball waiting!!! (No reservations)