Random Ramblings

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 ...

I miss the boat. So here are some videos I have of the boat to ride me over till I see it again. 😁 This is my favorite spot on the ship. It's on the back of the boat under the boom of the back sail. We plan to glass the back in so ww can sit out there even in bad weather. https://youtube.com/shorts/Cjt3r-Bx-wQ?feature=share A view from the front of the ship during it's maiden (to us) voyage https://youtu.be/3S_0uBizMHM And finally a tour while at sea (in the harbor) with our 128' retirement plan.  https://youtu.be/FaRKyMa77w4

This is the 2nd time I'm typing this post; I was almost done yesterday, just needed 1 picture and it erased the whole thing. I was most displeased. So let's try this again shall we? Welcome aboard!  This is a general layout of the boat. The wheelhouse, complete with a giant steering wheel that isn't actually hooked up to anything yet. 😁 The boat is actually steered by a controller with a few buttons right now. There is a bow thruster that makes the boat go sideways and a propeller and rudder in the back.  This is the front of the boat deck from on top of the wheelhouse We almost have a bathroom. However when ordering off Amazon sizing isn't always correct lol The galley. Working sink. And a diesel fueled cast iron stove. Super cool! Probably won't be using it cuz I'm not that good but 🤷🏼‍♀️ who knows. I have videos of the stove working as a heat source I'll have to post! Dining tables for 20...or for...

So this is the 1st post about the boat. I'll try to regularly keep this up. At the end of June when I get there I'll do a video tour for everyone. It's technically a "super yacht" because it's so long. I haven't seen it in person yet. I've seen pictures and video but Dan, Cassidy & now John have seen it.  It's a work in progress. The structure, masts, engine room & galley are complete. We are going to pull the boat at the end of June to get the hull scraped and painted. We are working on getting a sail plan that matches what we want. Then we have the bathrooms, bedrooms & "entertainment" rooms to do... basically the interior 3 holds are ours to design. With 4 boys/men obviously the plan is to make it look like a pirate ship 🏴‍☠️ 🤷🏼‍♀️ John apparently likes the job of chasing the birds off the boat. Dan had to get the boat pressure washed when he got there because the bird poop was so bad! John also says the rooms are "...

So the soccer tournament is over. ⚽ It's was fun.  My husband and youngest are now driving to CA to our boat.  My middle son flew this morning back to WV where our oldest is for a week long Younglife camp with his WV friends. I'm excited for him because he hasn't seen them in a year.  I am flying all by my lonesome back to AK. I have 2 weeks to pack up the camper into a storage unit, the camper is tentatively sold as long as the buyers house sells, which it should considering the Juneau housing market.  I know it's only 2 weeks and I shouldn't complain but it feels longer.  At the end of June all 5 of us will reconverge in CA on the boat for a month, then we go to WV for 2 weeks so I can see my friends who I miss more than the kids miss their friends apparently & have Dr & dentist appointments because I'm weirdly sentimental about the boys switching Drs from the one they've had since our oldest was a baby. 🤷🏼‍♀️ So as I sit at Sea-tac 5hrs before m...

Well the time has come for us to finally (finally!) Hopefully get the boat up to Juneau. I wanted to sell the camper (travel trailer) we are living in in the summer instead of waiting until the boat is here in the fall because I was afraid no one would buy a camper in the fall in Juneau Alaska.  So we put it on craigslist and 3 days later it's conditionally sold to a couple that are in the process of selling their house. There is a huge market in Juneau for sellers because there are way more people than houses...hence why we got a camper & the campground we are at is completely full.  So we are currently in Seattle for my youngest son's soccer tournament. Middle school and they are flying because that's how you travel for sports in Juneau. Still amazing to me.  After this weekend I will be back in Juneau for a month while my husband & son 3 head to the boat in California for the summer to work on it and get it ready to go. Son #2 is flying back to WV where son #1 ...