Meeting Karen and Charles on Jan 26th was instant
bonding. New boat owners themselves since Dec. we had many of the same needs
and list of must have. We shopped together till we dropped at the Miami boat
show and hit every boat store from Vero to Miami. Charles was great help in fix
or rebuild with his engineering background and it was Karen who got us in our
seamanship class. They also want to do the loop but work is still in their
immediate lives. Their daughter also helped us with a water system that gives
us triple filtered water in the galley as well as the wet bar (#1 on Sandy’s
list of must haves). Do I believe in
angels? YES
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| Pizza at the Miami Boat show |
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| Charlie and Karen Danny and Sandy |
Causing trouble! An evening with the Bill and Virginia and
A&B was fun from the start and it was the first time we were ever asked to “be
a little quieter” from any marina condo residents who overlook the marina. First time for everything, I guess. SomeRlovin’ loves to party! Seven bottles of fine wine caused us to use
our out doors voices
out doors—go figure…
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| Virginia and Bill innocent looking right? |
Loggerhead friends Sharon and Ken V. are AGLCA members and
completed the Loop in 2011. It was Sharon who told us about having cards made to
be able to pass to other cruisers. A thank you goes out to David and Deb for an
outstanding job making our “boat cards.” Sharon also spent time helping us with
a blog and gave us their list of their stops along the way. She is an
inspiration as she is the Captain of their 44’ vessel, Dockers Inn
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Ken and Sharon
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When Dan needed help working on the boat one of his best resources was another boater just a couple slips away, Geoff. What an amazing source of information and always willing to lend a hand. He and his wife Jill soon joined our circle of friends in the marina. Jill and Sandy bonded as retired nurses so they had things to talk about other than boating. Geoff and Jill also intend to do some long-range cruising this year but travel about 4 times faster than we do. However, with both boats going north it is very likely we'll run into each other somewhere along the way. That's our hope anyway.
Marshall and Judy have been at Grand Harbor and Loggerhead Marina
for years and could be seen riding their bikes around the docks frequently. We
mentioned needing bikes for our adventure and that we had missed an advertised
deal on some Dahon folding bikes. Judy said “Marshall has been wanting new ones
and this was as good a time as ever to sell ours.” Just in the nick of time for
us. Future pictures of the bikes to follow I’m sure. We met so many wonderful people in the marina.
The Loggerhead Marina staff was great during SomeRlovin’s 7
month stay. They were helpful with keeping an eye on the boat during our
absences and helped us in and out of our slip during the many real and practice
dockings. Harry, the assistant dock
master, even had the same model boat as ours only a few feet larger, so he was
a great source of information when Dan had his tool belt on. We’ll be back…
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| Harry Steve Neil |
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