The Blog, the boat and other things.

Ken & Lynn from"Get a Life" trying to race

Crazy Lady. We had to double reef the main and

drag warps behind Crazy to give "Get a Life" a chance.

Jen at Cloudy Bay Lagoon

Glenn: "nice legs" walking the dog!

Why keep a blog I've been asked?

Not only is the blog an easy way for family, friends and interested others to keep up with our trip, but it has also become a quick and enjoyable diary for Jen and I.

The map, the pics and our thoughts keep us up to date with ourselves. (does that make sense?)

Over the last 3 months or so we have had an incredible journey and not only physical, but also within ourselves.

When we left in December our thoughts were to give cruising a try and see where it would lead: "nothing ventured, nothing gained", as well as to see how we felt about it.

A recent comment by our Tabourie next door neighbours Denise and Dennis probably summed up our common anxiety, "We fear Tabourie will loose you both to your new way of life - and who could blame you".

No, we will not be leaving Tabourie forever. We both enjoy Tabourie and have made some really great friends that we love and both miss often. We have decided to keep going on this trip of unstructured discovery. What this means is that we will be back at Tabourie very soon to have a massive Garage Sale and rent out the house for a while.

Travelling by yacht is a slow process that gives you time to really look around and think. I guess we have both been doing a lot of thinking. We have decided which things are important and not so important. Family and friends can't be replaced, and neither can memories.

Stuff like possessions :TV's, stereo's, appliances, gadget's and furniture may be. (not LP's sorry winni)(nor iphone's)

Now I'm not preaching here as a yacht is one of life's great material extravagances, but what a way to go!!! The freedom experienced by travel is something that must be tried.

Yes it's so slow and our boat is.

You can live almost rent free and you can anchor out most of the time.(says Glenn now in marina) The wind is free, but seldom blowing the direction you want it to. If you don't like your neighbours pull up the anchor and move.

At first we thought that what we were doing was a little radical, or unusual but in the last 3 months we've met many different cruisers and travellers "all in the same boat" as us, from USA, France, Germany and Australia. It's not a perfect lifestyle by any means, but there are always new ways of challenging yourself. I mean look at Jen, who would have thought even a year ago that she could cross Bass Strait almost singlehanded??? There is always something new to see, and on a boat there is always a job or 2 on the go.

So how long will we be cruising?

We don't know.

How long will we stay in Tassie?

We don't know but maybe we will start to head north (back to the mainland) by the end of April. We could stay here until this time next year.

The great thing for us(?liberating) is that there is no real plan.

Whatever we feel like doing at the time will suffice.

Maybe in 6 months time it will be a different story, and we might want to give it up and go back to a normal life, who knows?

While ever we are enjoying travelling and sailing on Crazy Lady we will keep going.

Neighbours in Tabourie beware: we will be back this WEDNESDAY for 2 weeks.

Glenn