Tuesday, November 29, 2011

A video and an update

Hello friends! Some of you may be curious what is going on with our Monk and plans for a larger boat, etc. So far everything is pretty much on hold. :) As much as we could use the additional space, reality is that we do love our Monk and she is set up great for us and she is 100% reliable. We had the 45' pilothouse under contract but after fully inspecting her, we determined she needed way too much work. We are fine with doing a full refit on a boat and actually enjoy it (obviously!) but it just did not make sense on that particular boat. So....we are back to square one and that is ok because we are very happy with "square one." We are keeping an eye out for a larger boat but we are in no rush at all and would be completely happy keeping Living Light- she is certainly a peaceful vessel and a boat we enjoy and there are certainly worse things in life to have to deal with than a slightly smallish boat! For many, if not most, people, a 36 footer is a large vessel and compared to our sailboat friends, we are living in a palatial mansion aboard Living Light.

Although our season is not yet fully over for 2011, I could not resist putting together our annual video of our time aboard our boat this past year. I set the slideshow to one of our favorite artists, Andy McKee. If you have never heard of him go to youtube and type in his name. He is an incredible artist. The song in our video is entitled "For My Father." A fitting song not only for it's peaceful tune, but really, my dad is the one who taught me the love of being on the water so a very fitting song. We were blessed to have him come along for some of our trips this season so he even makes some cameo appearances for us!
Without further delay, our 2011 season video aboard Living Light. Enjoy!

We hope you all had a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving and here is to a joyous Christmas and holiday season for all and a wonderful 2012 just around the corner!