Leaving snowy New York for Florida! 2013

We enjoyed one of the snowiest Thanksgivings ever with our family this year in New York. Of coarse, this was a VERY late Thanksgiving! We took Anna and Ryan sledding and everyone enjoyed taking the Bad Boy out for a spin on our trails. The aggressive tires made going through the snow no problem at all. Steve and Juliann stopped by on their way home to Texas from a Taylors' Maine Thanksgiving. Stacey, the Jensens' and Walt and I all departed on Sunday, Dec 1st. We drove all night to Green Cove Springs, FL where our boat was waiting for us in the work yard. We had a major mold and mildew problem which we spent hours, days cleaning up.....A mechanic pulled our cutlass bearing on Tuesday and replaced it. Our shaft is misaligned and Walt is still trying to fix it. Sailing is WORK!

We went in the water on Wed, Dec. 4th and today we did the 21 miles to JAX Landing. The railroad bridge here is broken and it only opens four times a day so we had to be here at 2:00. We went through the bridge with 6 other boats and pulled into JAX Landing for the night. Tomorrow the bridge closes for a week and we would have been stuck in the St. John's River.......if we had not been here today.