The Drama is Over

The drama is over.  The wind has settled down to a dull roar and our anchor has held tight for four days.  Thank you God!

Even though this experience has left me slightly traumatized, I can relax now.  The worst is behind us.  Now we can sit back, analyze the situation, and learn from where we went wrong. 

Our windless is still motorless mind you, and the worn-out rudder bearings are still there but we are working on these issues.  The bearings are on route and we have a lead on where to get the windlass motor fixed so things are starting to look up.   Every day feels a bit more encouraging than the last and I can't tell you how good it feels to say that. 

When we started out on this adventure we said that we will do it until it's not fun anymore.  Well, we take that back.  It's not all fun and that's, simply put, the reality of it.  There are going to be challenges without a doubt.  Every boater out here has a few horror stories to tell....some worse than others.  We're not naive enough to think we'd breeze through this without any problems so these recent set backs do not come as a surprise.   Is it fun?  No.... but it doesn't have to be fun all the time. 

My friend Lynn said to me today, "Everything on the boat is broken.  We just don't know it yet" 

Oh how true. As the saying goes.... Cruising is fixing your boat in exotic places.  By the time I post again we should have our boat parts delivered and we will have decided where to get hauled out. but....

More about that....next time.