Last week I found a Cruising Guide for Florida, The Gulf Coast, and The Bahamas on Ebay for $11.00 and I was happy with this as they usually cost around forty bucks. I love cruising guides; for me they've taken the place of what the Sears Roebuck catalog used to do for me when I was a kid. I can leaf through all the pages and dream about all the things I want (or now, the places I want to sail to). Although come to think of it, I never did get the vanity table complete with the cute little seat that doubled as a storage unit for your slippers, the egg incubator, or the nurse costume.
And don't anyone even think of telling Hans about the nurse costume since that's the last thing I want to unwrap this Christmas!
Here is the Cruising Guide along with a book about the Bahamas that Hans found in a Marina Library. Yet one more thing to love about sailing is the Marina Library which is usually found in the laundry room.
All you have to do is swap out the books you've read, and pick up some you haven't. I have to say I read some books this summer that I otherwise never would have read except for the fact that I had no choice.
And I was never disappointed.
MapTech Chartkits!!! The absolute Bible for the sailor. We bought Norfolk to Florida, plus Eastern Florida and The Keys, off of EBay for $83.00 each. I hope that was a good deal, I know the usually cost around $130.00 each.
These charts show water depths, markers and buoys, bridges...I mean everything! You really can't sail without proper paper charts.
However, we're having a great deal of difficulty finding charts for the Bahamas!
Region 7!!!!
Region 6!!!!!
But where oh where is Region 9 (Bahamas) ??????
If only Sears Roebuck could help us!
My sewing project is a crib for The Bumfuzzles (a couple I found via the wonderful world of the Internet). Quest, the Bumfuzzle baby, is in need of a place to sleep aboard the monohull her parents have recently acquired.
This is one completed side of the crib (with a mesh insert and the X in the background is my ironing board support). I'll post a picture of it when it's complete.
If you want to be thoroughly entertained you need to check out their blog. This young couple threw caution to the wind, sold everything they owned, and set out to sail around the world. Who cares if they'd never sailed a day in their life before this!
And seven years later they are still living the life.
"Baby? What baby?" Wilbur wanted to know!
We assured him it wasn't ours. If it was, I'd be sewing a straight jacket.
For me!
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