We're Back!

Howdy! We’re back and soon to be out there cruising again; only this time on a different boat and in a different part of the world. Welcome to our new website where we plan to keep our family, friends and fellow cruisers updated on our adventures. For those of you used to the old Tales from Seabbatical Journal we’ve decided to “kick it up a notch” with a website which we hope will entertain and inform. It’s been a long, boatless year since we returned from our cruise last June. After docking at Lakewood Yacht Club in late June we spent a week unloading six years of gear, cleaning and polishing, fixing broken stuff and generally getting Seabbatical ready to sell. We thought it would take about six months for her to sell and anticipated spending time down at the docks keeping her in selling condition. Much to our shock the right person walked by at the right time and Seabbatical sold within 3 weeks! For the first time in many years we were boatless and landlocked. We managed to keep busy with visits to and from the girls, a family reunion at Christmas, some snow skiing and hours of preparation and anxious anticipation for our new boat. The waiting is almost over – we leave for France in July and take possession July 28th. For our first installment we thought you might be interested in how Lone Star came to be…..