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September & October on the boat

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Hello everyone!! its been ages since I've posted, I've been meaning to but just never gotten to it. How time flies.  So, Dan & Cassidy spent most of September and part of October on the boat...lucky them! We (the collective clan) didn't get out to the boat this summer...oh I was also told it's not a boat, it's a ship...which technically its a super yacht because of how long it is...it's a gigantically huge sailboat, but that sounds far to pretentious for my crew! Bigger than necessary but 🤷🏼‍♀️ if it makes the guy happy, I'm happy 😆 but also it's awkward to call it a ship so whenever I say boat, just assume I mean ship. 😁⛵ Anywho, as Xavier, John & I flew north for Xavier's senior year of high school (how are they this old already?!), Dan & Cassidy drove cross-country to the boat.  Because I wasn't there we are limited on pictures but there were seals and seagulls (that we don't like because they are messy birds that are very ...

Maiden Voyage of the Aurora

So we 5 took the ship out around the harbor to see how it did and to see how we did. It was not as smooth as it could have gone but it could have been way worse. I'm not going to tell you what happened because we don't need that spreading around! Lol but we left, we made it around & we successfully docked again. 😅 And boy was it stressful for everyone! 😳 We did get to talk to probably a dozen people who were happy to see the boat moving because it had been sitting since it was started being built long before we bought it. We also had a crowd of people (tourists) watching us manouver her back to dock. Videos & pictures are out there somewhere!  I took a couple of video of us while we were underway.  https://youtu.be/C3DL7eyW6oM