Our Adventures with Seaquel

December 1 It’s been two weeks, almost 3 since I’ve last posted. Not sure why I find it super challenging to be motivated to write. And it’s December already!!! Today is a blustery day - high around 60° - so it’s a perfect day to write. Picture the sound of the saw in the background while Eddie is cutting a hole in the floor to access the fuel tanks. More on that later! After leaving Indiantown, hallelujah!, we crossed Lake Okeechobee from east to west. This involved traveling through three locks and an overnight stay. The lake was so calm and reminded me a little bit of traveling in the Chesapeake Bay. There would be days on the Chesapeake where we would refer to it as Lake Chesapeake because it was so calm. All messages were that Lake O can get super sloppy. It’s a large shallow lake with a wide fetch which means there is ample opportunity for waves to build. Oh and they say it’s an unforgiving bottom which means you really don’t want to ground. There had been so much rain in S. Flor...

Wow! The last post was back in April! It’s November, 11th, Veterans Day. We left Seaquel for the summer on the hard in the storage yard in Indiantown Marina. It was hard for me to say good bye. It went easier for Eddie. We had planned to spend a month doing boat projects in May but decided to get out of dodge. With COVID numbers really high in Florida, we rented an SUV, loaded it up and drove to our home in Delaware where we spent the summer.  It took me a while to adjust to being back on land but I soon fell into the groove, riding my bike to water aerobics in the morning and beaching or going to the pool in the afternoon. It’s a tough life but hey, somebody has to do it.  On September 1 we drove to Port St. Lucie, Florida. Our plan was to spend 2 months in an air bnb in Port St Lucie while doing boat projects, launch at the end of October and cruise at the beginning of November.  For those 2 months our days went something like this - 6:30am alarm, breakfast, pack lunch ...