To me, sailboats are tropical things, warm water, sun, fun, ice in my drink. So there's just something inherently wrong with seeing ice around a sailboat. And something VERY wrong with seeing ice around MY sailboat. I was leaving for class early this morning and the boat was surrounded by ice. Ice. It took me a minute to figure out why the water had those funny cracks in it. The marina was ice from the inside docks to the breakwater on the other side of the channel. My first reaction was one of Steve's favorite military acronyms "WTF, over!" My second reaction was to call Steve and tell him to poke his head out and take a look. His reaction is not printable. I went off to class, came home later this afternoon, it still hasn't melted. I have to take my hat off to the Tourism Council in Oriental and their version of the winter weather that we all believed. There are quite a few people here, like us, walking around saying "What happened to warm and sunny?"
We are both keeping busy studying for captains licenses and radio upgrades, fixing, mending, etc. Adjima is lost without her sunspot to sleep in and has declared herself the Inspector Of Everything and is making a pest of herself. It's a good thing she's so perfect in all other ways or it would be really annoying.
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Ha ha ha ha, oh Adjima. Good thing she's so cute!
I probably should have been more inquiring and explicit in my asking if you had heat for the boat saloon for the winter. Hope you're holding out well. I suspect upper midwesterners like you two know something about enduring a winter, crust of ice on the harbor be damned! - Jeff
ICE! That is really wrong on so many levels....I know we have no room to whine but it is cold her in the Bahamas....no ice though. Stay warm!
The only ice here is in my rum... (Fridge is working great!) Not so cold as Freedom, water still high seventies, air maybe 65 with the front... Third day of screaming northerlies...
Come visit and thaw out!
Hug Adji for us!
This winter is just the worst -- ever. Everybody east of about the Mississippi is miserable, I think. That ice is completely scary. I'm sure they don't have bubblers there like they do in DC, prob b/c it NEVER gets that cold. CRAZY! Hang in. This CANNOT last. Of course, we have been saying that to ourselves for two weeks.
Why oh why did I leave the San Blas Islands. It's to cold here in Florida. But not as cold as you are experiencing. Stay warm and try to come for another visit. Miss ya, Kristel
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