Boat Yard Limbo
We just got back from a fantastic holiday in Ireland this week. It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience and next week we will give you the full run-down. By the end of the week, you will probably be tired of all the dramatic landscape photos with sheep in them.
One stop on our road trip through Ireland
This week has been a little weird, in that we have more time than we know what to do with while Samba is at the boat yard. From what we understand, the engine install is going well and hopefully will be done in the next couple of weeks. We are also taking advantage of the boat being out of the water and having the bottom painted. It’s been a couple of years and the bottom has started to grow creatures much quicker than it should.
Lots of barnacles growing on our prop
Neither one of us is used to having so much free time on our hands. As an avid reader, this means I can catch up on my ever growing TBR (To Be Read) list and Brian can continue researching the next big thing and planning for the next part of our journey. After our flight from Ireland, it was really nice to have a couple of days to recover from jet lag. This has also been a good time to get back into a regular exercise routine, especially since we are attending a couple of weddings in the next couple months and need to break out the fancy clothes that have not seen the light of day since the pandemic began. Last but not least, we always enjoy catching up with friends and family while back in town.
All in all, we are extremely lucky to have this time to relax and take a break. But, we also feel adrift without our boat, a feeling we are calling “Boat Yard Limbo”. We don’t know for sure when the boat is going to be done, and we had done most of the prep for our adventure leading up to our cast-off in July.
One of our favorite YouTube channels, Sailing Nahoa, released a video recently that really resonated with us. Speaking from their years of experience, they expressed doing a boat refit can be soul sucking. It takes so much time and energy and money. There are constant hiccups and refits generally happen at the beginning of your journey which make it hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But at the end of the day, the hard work pays off and the rewards gained are totally worth it.
We are looking forward to the days of watching the sunset, sipping a Dark ‘n Stormy, on the bow of Samba. And in the meantime, we are making the most of our downtime.
We are looking forward to more sunsets like this one
So, we leave you, and us, with an inspirational quote, to get you through the next week or so.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
