Comments for Sea Venture's Journey

Comment on While We’re on the Hard by qathy

qathy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:35:05 +0000

We also draw 6.5 feet. We muse over the shallow water. However, we want to go out to the Dry Tortugas, a reprise of our first real cruise, with an instructor from Annapolis Sailing School in 1996. We peruse the charts with an eagle eye, and we won’t be doing any stunts such as slipping into close quarters at high tide. We don’t like the possible consequences of being trapped there by low tide. Cruising is about freedom, after all.
I honor you for your care for your mother. God blesses those who honor their parents, and clearly some of those blessings include your shared joy in being together. How great that she loves sailing.

Comment on While We’re on the Hard by Normandie

Normandie — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:51:16 +0000

Sea Venture is now in Beaufort, NC, having traveled from Mexico to Northern CA and back to Mexico (where we remained for a few years), then south, through the Panama Canal, and up the East Coast, all so that we could get home to take care of my mother when she asked that of us. She loves to sail, and as soon as SV is back in the water, we’ll do so. We probably won’t want to do much ocean cruising with her on board — unless for short hops in calm seas — though Mama has certainly been with us in some messy waters in the Sea of Cortez.

Michael put in to Key West and Miami, but said that FL has far too much skinny water for a boat that draws 6.5 feet. What is your draft? I understand the problem of finding a spot and not wanting to leave it. We felt that way about the Sea of Cortez, which was about as perfect a cruising ground as we could imagine. Still, there’s more to see and places we haven’t yet traveled.

Comment on While We’re on the Hard by qathy

qathy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:35:01 +0000

Oh, my. A cruiser who never prayed for patience would self-destruct in a frenzy of anxiety in less than a week. As you say, it is always something. Just curious where exactly you are, since you say you will be in the ICW. We are in Lake Worth. We are cruising Florida this year, but we stopped at Lake Worth and haven’t been able to motivate ourselves to move on yet.

Comment on While We’re on the Hard by Normandie

Normandie — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:27:50 +0000

It is cool, Nicole. And bending from the purist will certainly give us the confidence to duck in next to those hard surfaces when we need to.

Comment on While We’re on the Hard by Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:11:16 +0000

Very cool. Not that it arrived damaged but that you’re getting something to make you even more sea worthy. Sometimes we’ve got to bend from “the purist” category. Sometimes . . .

Comment on About Us by Emery Gerhardt

Emery Gerhardt — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:21:45 +0000

Just got back from a SOMA mission in Uganda. Since Uganda is landlocked you will probably miss it. It is a targeted area for Islam but the Faith of the people there is powerful. Despite beatings and worse they refuse to renounce their Christian Faith. We in the West have no idea of what Islam is doing or ho they go about it. People in places like Uganda know Christ in ways we haven’t seen. The mission was a great spiritual gift to me. Thank you Lord!

Comment on Sailing Odyssey by Normandie

Normandie — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:55:55 +0000

Bill, how delightful to hear from you. I do hope you enjoy the blogs. Dear friends of ours own a Vagabond 47, a wonderful boat. Give us a shout at our email address, and let’s chat some more. I may answer from my personal address, but both of us will read the svseaventure at gmail dot com address. I also had the privilege of homeschooling my children for a number of years.

Thank you for your sign-off of blessings. I return them,
Normandie

Comment on Sailing Odyssey by Bill

Bill — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:26:18 +0000

I very much enjoyed your post Normandie. My wife and I are in our mid-fifties, we have seven kids, three out on their own pretty much, the forth getting ready for college next year, and we are thinking of setting sail with the other three. Well, actually, the idea is more appealing to me than my wife, but she tolerates my cruising research. I have enjoyed sailing small catamarans from my youth. My wife is a mid-westerner.

I too like the Garden designs and am looking at a fixer upper Vagabond 47. I would love to buy one cheap and fix it up while living aboard. Our family has renovated 5 homes and sold them over the past 5 years. We also own a small portfolio of rental property. This has worked well for our us. We homeschool the kids and have had the flexibility to work often as a family on our real estate ventures. I wonder how well we would do on a boat. We have only lived in one home while renovating it though. It appears to me we would be good candidates to undertake a venture like this.

I am going to peruse more of your posts.
I too am an engineer by training.
My wife Julie is very artistic as you are.
I am going to have her read your post.
If you can develop a love for sailing, there’s hope that Julie can too!
Blessings back at you!
Bill

Comment on Six thousand miles and barely a ding. And now? by Stephen A Freeman

Stephen A Freeman — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:09:27 +0000

He Normandie,
could you reply by email… I live in Morehad City, and wanted to email you but not enough space in this block, and IT is very hard to see what I am typing. Please send me an email
Stephen Freeman
1700 Calico Drive
Morehead City, 28557 cell 252-725-3845 my email Sfreeman@ec.rr.com

Comment on Six thousand miles and barely a ding. And now? by Normandie

Normandie — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:28:11 +0000

Arlo, thanks for your note. Still trying to get bids, but it will happen!