![]() ![]() I left the mainsail ready to hoist so that we could readily capture a return of a favorable wind-leaving the mainsail halyard shackled to the head. The easterly component of the wind was a nice unexpected surprise (the weather reports put the wind directly out of the north) that would allow us to continue under sail as we began the offshore passage to Apalachoicola.Īt 4:00 the wind shifted to match the weather report and placed our sails in irons, so we fired up the old reliable Westerbeke to punch into the wind with the waves about 4 to 6 feet. To our dismay we came upon the Treasure Island bridge to discover it was closed for repairs, our access to the gulf blocked we turned south and made way for Passe a Grille, the delay would set us back about three hours.annoying, but once we cleared Structure "C" we raised the main, starved the engine and once again felt the exhilaration of voyaging under sail.Īfter clearing the last Passe a Grille channel buoy at 11:00 we turned north west and with the Gulf a subdued 4 foot bounce we found the wind out of the North east. We discovered that the Skipper of Last Dime had worked in Casper, WY and that the Corey Causeway Bridge tender was from Maine which was given evidence by his accent. We turned north and waited briefly for the Corey Bridge to open and made our way to the Treasure Island bridge in the company of Last Dime where we would have unrestricted access to the Gulf via John's Pass. We departed early Thursday morning from Tracy's Cove, everything stowed for offshore travel, enough food and water for three or more weeks and already exhausted from the hectic pace of preparation. #LEGACY RACIAL TYRANNY GENERATOR#The vessel next to us had a wind generator that gave the wind an exclamation point as it screamed like it was going to fly apart at any time.Īfter completing the work, we sailed back to Tracy's Cove to await good weather, top off the water tanks, stuff the food lockers with three weeks of groceries, and catch the last of our email. Making the clumsy climb up a step ladder to reach the deck of Legacy.ĭuring the night that Josephine passed the winds were fairly strong, but the jack stands held firm. I am not sure which would have been more nerve wracking, being in the slip or being way up in the air on spindly jack stands. It is the outermost means of support for the prop shaft.ĭuring the three days we were hauled out, hurricane Josephine squeezed past Tampa Bay putting much of Tracy's Cove Marina under water. A cutlass bearing is is a brass tube with a rubber interior that the prop shaft passes through. ![]() Tina, having become more of the boat person than I, insisted that we just relocate S/V Legacy to Texas.īefore leaving FL, we hauled S/V Legacy out at Salt Creek Marina to apply a fresh coat of bottom paint and replace a worn cutlass bearing. Having doubled our net worth since leaving Wyoming, we were in a position to purchase property near the lovely Wind River Range. I tried to convince Tina to sell S/V Legacy and return to Wyoming. ![]() I found that the schools in my revered state of Wyoming would readily adopt the boys, Tina found that they could be admitted into the Texas school system. ![]() We searched for a school that wasn't so overbearing (or so humorless). The sheer stupidity of this led us to search about the nation to see if such anti-intellectualism dominated all schools. My response that the lads were two weeks late at birth drew blank, bureaucratic stares. To our astonishment, the test results proved irrelevant to the school administrators in Florida who were going to pigeon hole the boys into fifth grade based on their date of birth being 5 days beyond their deadline. The lads excelled, scoring at the 8th and 9th grade level in most subjects. To get them in the government run schools, we had to submit the boys to a battery of expensive tests. So after five years of home school we decided to enroll the boys in the government run schools for sixth grade. Tina was burned out, the boys wanted to experience "normal" school life, and our financial state demanded that we add Tina to employment rolls. The pivotal event for us this past year has to do with the schooling of our boys. Living aboard a sailboat achieves on a very individual level the goals of the Atlantis Project. I liveaboard a 32' O'Day sailing vessel with my dangerous red head wife, Tina, and our twin boys, Broc and Bryan who have been home/boat schooled for five years. ![]()
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