Overdue Update:

It’s been awhile since I gave y’all an update, and lots of reasons for that. For one, I was falling into the trap of writing a travelogue, and that was never my intention. But it’s an easy trap to fall into if your are writing as you travel. Secondly, we have been pushing very hard to put miles under our keel- too hard, actually, as the fun/work ratio was becoming unfavorable- writing for the blog became one more damned thing I “had” to do, and it was one of the easiest to curtail while we pushed on. Actually, the work/fun ratio had drifted into the overworked/dangerous category. More on that in a bit.

As of yesterday, we are back in Austin TX for a few weeks, to visit friends/family, and to be introduced to this bundle of joy:

This is Iris Miloy Sanders, daughter of Kayla and Andy, Kate’s and my first grandbaby, and to my way of thinking, one of the cutest babies ever born.

Gabrielle is safely tucked away in a marina in Merritt Island, Florida (near Cape Canaveral). We are enjoying being away from the boat for awhile, and not having to push push push south. We’re going to rest up here, head back around Thanksgiving, where we’ll provision up, get our crew onboard, and head off for our final two week offshore trip to Puerto Rico.

We need the R&R- the last few weeks have been harder than we expected, and we pushed ourselves past the fun part, into the danger zone. Two weeks ago, we almost lost the boat, and could’ve lost more than that.

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