LEFT COYABA FOR OTTAWA

We left Coyaba in St. Augustine and arrived home in Metcalfe on Friday night. We leave behind work to be done by the "worker bees" at the St. Augustine Marine Center. The rub rail will be taken down and a brand new one will replace it. There is some work being done on our rudders and engine. We hope to be back in St. Augustine after the Canadian Thanksgiving around October 11th. Last year we hired the staff to paint our boat bottom, but this October we will do it ourselves. Shortly after, we will put it in the water. Sunset Bay Marina in Stuart, FL is expecting us around November 1st. We will motor along the ICW to our destination and provision for the Bahamas there.

The weather in St. Augustine was very hot and unfortunately rained around 3pm every day. However we did get many small and large jobs completed. We did get the ceiling in the flybridge up but will put the trim up next month.

Our boys are happy to have us back, one son moves out for school but will be home on weekends. We are helping to get him organized but he is nineteen and is quite capable. I just want to be around to "help" him get organized.... is in a mother's job description.

Paul and I leave for Vancouver Island in two weeks for a one week visit to see my parents. This will be a holiday for us as we stop in Vancouver for three nights also.

Safe travels one and all where ever you may be.

Nautical Terms:
Ahoy
The first in a series of four letter words commonly exchanged by skippers as their boats approach one another

Bar
Long. Low lying navigational hazard, usually awash, found at river mouths and harbour entrances, where it is composed of sand or mud, and ashore, where it is made of mahogany or some other dark wood. Sailors can be found in large numbers around both.

Gear
Generic term for any pieces of boating equipment that can be forgotten in the back-seat or boot of a car, left behind on a pontoon, soaked in the bottom of a dinghy or lost over the side of the boat.

Sailing
The fine art of getting wet and becoming ill while slowly going nowhere at great expense. :-)